Format:
126 Seiten
,
29 cm
ISBN:
9781926473178
,
1926473175
Content:
"Hospitality was--and still is--highly valued in the Middle East. Private homes in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Syria contained rooms specifically designed and decorated to receive guests. In Syrian societies, especially, reception rooms were the most lavishly decorated spaces in the house, something very much in evidence with the panels of the Damascus Room in the Diwan restaurant at the Aga Khan Museum. Syrian Living: Medieval to Modern, authored by Aga Khan Museum curator Filiz Çakır Phillip and conservator Anke Scharrahs, casts an illuminating spotlight on the large number of historic houses in Syria that have been preserved in the country. Due to significant examples in the Old City of Damascus, and the fact that painted wooden interior panels present in Western collections mainly originate from that city, most of these rooms have been named after Damascus. Among the focuses of the book are the wall panels, closets, decorative niches, and ceilings fashioned from elaborately painted and gilded wood with the ‘ajami technique. The Damascus Room in the Aga Khan Museum Collection consists of ninety-four painted wooden panels once part of the ceiling and walls of a traditional nineteenth-century home, sixty-two of which are on display in Diwan. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, Syrian Living provides a thorough investigation of the Aga Khan Museum’s own Damascus Room while offering a wide-ranging survey of such rooms around the world, including many of the thousands that can still be found in Damascus itself."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Author information:
Çakır Phillip, Filiz
