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Yellow Field Blossom carpet
Carpet Collection
16th century Persian carpet fragment, 72cm x 169cm, Tabriz.
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
Yellow Field Blossom Carpet: 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
Three 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 ...
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