Doris Duke's Shangri La : a house in paradise : architecture, landscape and Islamic art /
Shangri La 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.
- New York : Skira Rizzoli, 2012, ò012.
- 216 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
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.