Work of Art

Green carpet with White Blossoms

Carpet Collection

15th century Khorossan carpet fragment, 70cm x 249cm, Herat, Northeast Persia; 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

Green Carpet with White Blossoms: Photographs 01/01/1993

Carpet Fragment, Carpet Patterns

Photographer:

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

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color, B&W

Four photographs, one of the carpet fragment and two of the carpet blossom detail both in color and black and white.

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 ...