Work of Art

Medallion carpet with Endless Rumi Design

Carpet Collection

Late 15th century Persian carpet, 224cm x 588cm, Tabriz, Northwest Persia; sold on 7-Nov-2017, at Sotheby’s auction .

Content of

Work of Art

Christopher Alexander's carpet collection, at its final state included about 80 carpets, most of them Turkish carpets, or carpets with a pronounced "Turkic" character

Carpet Collection

Christopher Alexander started collecting carpets because of his desire to learn from them. He felt that they had something to teach him. He was never interested in the classification of carpets, where they came from, or on their type. He ...

Contents

Photographs

Medallion Carpet with Endless Rumi Design: Photographs 01/01/1993

Carpet, Carpet Patterns

Photographer:

One of the four - Don Tuttle, Garry Muse, Bud Holland, Dennis Anderson, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Two photographs, one of the whole carpet and another focusing on the medallion.

References

Books

A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art - The Color and Geometry of very Early Turkish Carpets 1993

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.

No of pages:

351 pp

The seventh volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press is a book about carpets. Alexander assembled what many believe to be one of the finest collections of early Turkish carpets in the ...