Carpets from Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

ISBN-13: 9780500970430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str.

Friedrich Spuhler

Opis

This book features some of the finest classical carpets from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, all from the spectacular al-Sabah Collection. Carpet and textile expert Friedrich Spuhler describes the Collection in the context of the history of Islamic art and recounts the stories behind individual carpets The book includes pictures of many carpets never before reproduced in print, and one that may have been lost forever following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.