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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 [and others] ; organized by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art ; principal photography by Tim Street-Porter

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Shangri La
Published
New York : Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
Physical Description
216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 32 cm
Additional Creators
Mellins, Thomas, Albrecht, Donald, Pope, Deborah, Komaroff, Linda, 1953-, Street-Porter, Tim, and Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art

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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.
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ISBN
9780847838950
0847838951
Note
Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at seven U.S. locations, Sept. 7, 2012-July 5, 2015.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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