Work of Art

Carpet with Red Stars and Crosses

Carpet Collection

16th century carpet fragment, 147cm x 112cm, Western Anatolia; sold on 2018, 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

Carpet with Red Stars and Crosses: Photograph 01/01/1993

Carpet

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Photograph of the whole carpet.

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 ...