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Title Doris Duke's Shangri La : a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art / edited by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht ; foreword by Deborah Pope ; essays by Linda Komaroff ... [et al.] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter.

Imprint New York : Skira Rizzoli, 2012, ©2012.

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 GDL Brand Library Non-Fiction    728.3709 DOR    Available
Description 216 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Note Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at seven U.S. locations, Sept. 7, 2012-July 5, 2015.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Shangri La / Tim Street-Porter -- Doris Duke and the Islamic art collecting tradition / Linda Komaroff -- Commissioning on the move: the Cromwells' travels and patronage of "living traditions" in India, Morocco and Iran / Keelan Overton -- Collecting for design: Islamic art at Doris Duke's Shangri La / Sharon Littlefield Tomlinson -- Islamic art: selected objects from Shangri La -- Inventive synthesis: the architecture and design of Shangri La / Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht -- Contemporary artists respond to Shangri La.
Subject Duke, Doris, 1912-1993 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
Duke, Doris, 1912-1993 -- Homes and haunts -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Exhibitions.
Islamic art -- Exhibitions.
Art -- Private collections -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Exhibitions.
Islamic architecture -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Mellins, Thomas.
Albrecht, Donald.
Pope, Deborah.
Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
Street-Porter, Tim.
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.
Added Title House in paradise
Architecture, landscape and Islamic art
Shangri La
ISBN 9780847838950
0847838951

 
    
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