The Carpet Museum – A Shrine to Color and Light

01/01/1990

Visions, Essays

9-page essay on Alexander’s vision to build a Carpet Museum for housing eighty Turkish carpets from his collection, chosen for their unbelievable beauty of color and light; these carpets date from a range of periods from 12th to 17th century.

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

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References

Published Books

A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art - The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets 01/01/1993

Publication, Original Book

Authors:

Christopher Alexander

Publisher:

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

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 ...

Works 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 ...

Public Events

"Ancient Color and Geometry: Anatolian Pile Carpets from the Christopher Alexander Collection" exhibition in M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco 10/11/1990 to 17/02/1991

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Bob Theis, Annie der Bedrossian

Organized by:

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and The Center for Environmental Structure

The exhibition of the Christopher Alexander collection of 80 Turkish carpets in the de Young Memorial Museum was held during the 6th International Conference on Oriental Carpets. Alexander designed the exhibit in all its detailing personally with one thing in ...