This book is the eponymous catalogue of an exhibition opening in November 2004 at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. Encompassing masterpieces of Tibetan furniture design and decoration in all its forms, the 148 exhibits are drawn from the large group of public and private collections in the western United States, the result of an active interest in the preservation and research of this long overlooked Tibetan art form. This particular catalogue communicates both the aesthetic significance of these exceptional ...
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This book is the eponymous catalogue of an exhibition opening in November 2004 at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. Encompassing masterpieces of Tibetan furniture design and decoration in all its forms, the 148 exhibits are drawn from the large group of public and private collections in the western United States, the result of an active interest in the preservation and research of this long overlooked Tibetan art form. This particular catalogue communicates both the aesthetic significance of these exceptional works of art and the important role they have
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Add this copy of Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in Secular and to cart. $41.92, very good condition, Sold by Big Star Books & Music rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from santa Fe, NM, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Serindia Publications.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 13x1x9; Hardcover, in jacket. Clean, unmarked, tightly bound. Light wear. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available!
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004. 4to., 9 3/4" x 11 1/4", 359pp., lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, gold endpapers. "'The Tibetan style of furnishing is elaborate and luxurious...when it is carried out with taste it has a bold, barbaric fascination that can hardly be excelled. ' So the Italian scholar Fosco Maraini characterized the Tibetan interior during his travels on the plateau in the late 1930s. Within twenty years the world he so vividly described would be swept away in the tide of the Chinese invasion and the later Cultural Revolution. Yet while so much of Tibetan material culture was lost, furniture has survived and re-surfaced in the 21st century as one of the great new subjects in Tibetan design and aesthetics." Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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