Title & Author:

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.

Publication:

New York : Skira Rizzoli, [2012]

Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at seven U.S. locations, Sept. 7, 2012-July 5, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Summary:

Features Doris Duke's estate, Shangri La, and its influential synthesis of modernist architecture and Islamic art and design. Situated on five acres of terraced gardens and pools overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu's Diamond Head, Shangri La was the idyllic paradise of philanthropist Doris Duke, reflecting her personal passion for the art, architecture and design of the Islamic world. Presents Shargri La's breath-taking interiors and landscape, including the splendid furnishings and art. Essays explore Duke as a collector; artwork commissioned in India, Morocco and Iran in the 1930s; and the evolving relations of art, architecture and landscape over time.--Inside front flap.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780847838950 (hardcover)
0847838951 (hardcover)

Subject:

Duke, Doris, 1912-1993 Homes and haunts Hawaii Honolulu Exhibitions.
Duke, Doris, 1912-1993 Art collections Exhibitions.
Duke, Doris Homes and haunts Hawaii Honolulu.
Duke, Doris Art collections.
Duke, Doris, 1912-1993
Islamic architecture Influence Exhibitions.
Islamic art Exhibitions.
Art Private collections Hawaii Honolulu Exhibitions.
Architecture islamique Influence Expositions.
Art islamique Expositions.
Art Collections privées Hawaii Honolulu Expositions.
Art Private collections
Homes
Islamic art
Hawaii Honolulu

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Mellins, Thomas.
Albrecht, Donald.
Pope, Deborah.
Komaroff, Linda, 1953-
Street-Porter, Tim.
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

Shangri La
House in paradise
Architecture, landscape and Islamic art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280278
Call No.: BIB 216917
Status: Available