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Franz West – "Auditorium" 1992, 72 divans, 90 x 110 x 220 cm each, installation at documenta IX, KasselThough not apprec...
04/17/2023

Franz West – "Auditorium" 1992, 72 divans, 90 x 110 x 220 cm each, installation at documenta IX, Kassel

Though not appreciated by everybody, it made West’s approach to art clear: Creating accessibility in art. In an interview with Robert Fleck, he also said,

"Best of all, I like art in the streets; it doesn’t demand that you make a special journey to see it, it’s simply there. You don’t even have to look at it – that is probably the ideal art."

West visited every single dry cleaner in Vienna, asking for old, worn out, abandoned Persian carpets. The scruffy rugs were then enveloped over a metal frame draped with foam to make a makeshift sofa. Franz West created a total of seventy-two Auditorium sofas. They could accommodate 72 people. The work was exhibited for the first time at documenta IX’s parking space.
This move showed West’s anti-establishment approach to art as many people ended up sprawling on dirt rugs outside the main event.

A superb shirvan pictorial rug with a prince on horseback hunting with his bird of prey. Available for purchase from th...
04/17/2023

A superb shirvan pictorial rug with a prince on horseback hunting with his bird of prey. Available for purchase from the mind boggling collection of

Acrobats Rehearsing Their Act at Great Golden Circus, Ahmedabad Mary Ellen Mark - 1989 .    ...
04/17/2023

Acrobats Rehearsing Their Act at Great Golden Circus, Ahmedabad
Mary Ellen Mark - 1989 .

  

Young rug makers in Tashkent Professional College **heavy emphasis on the incredible ikat fashion** Photo by Semyon Frid...
04/17/2023

Young rug makers in Tashkent Professional College **heavy emphasis on the incredible ikat fashion**
Photo by Semyon Fridlyand, 1950s


  

Lee Radziwill photographed in 1966 by Cecil Beaton with her daughter, Tina, could find no designer able to bring intimac...
04/17/2023

Lee Radziwill photographed in 1966 by Cecil Beaton with her daughter, Tina, could find no designer able to bring intimacy to what she called the “bowling alley” proportions of her London living room until she discovered Renzo Mongiardino. He took two different inexpensive Indian fabrics, cut them into panels and alternated them in gilded rod frames, thus starting a trend for “Indian rooms.” Photo courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s

  

Debbie Lawson's work takes the form of a series of episodes that invite the viewer on a journey through the landscape of...
04/17/2023

Debbie Lawson's work takes the form of a series of episodes that invite the viewer on a journey through the landscape of the domestic interior, where popular narratives and personal histories are intertwined so that the imaginary and material reality seem inseparable. Visual codes collide, giving form to new animated hybrids with a quietly sinister inner life and aspirations to be bigger than themselves.
At the heart of the work is a focus on the cultural traditions surrounding everyday objects – specifically those found in the aspirational home. And although it may look elaborate, the impetus behind the work comes from a stripped-down idea of sculpture: the patterned carpet she uses as an outer surface emphasises the innate qualities of form while at the same time disrupting them so that it appears to alternate between three dimensions and two, creating a visual slippage.

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A tent for a tiger’s dreamsTipu Sultan’s tent, in the Mughal style, was captured by the British after the fall of Sering...
04/17/2023

A tent for a tiger’s dreams

Tipu Sultan’s tent, in the Mughal style, was captured by the British after the fall of Seringapatan in 1799.
It was used as a marquee for garden parties at Powis Castle.
It can now be seen in the Clive Museum at Powis Castle
Reposted from the incredible author ..make sure to check out her latest book- Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
  

Mughal India, c. 1575–1625Baroque pearl, gold set with rubies, emeralds, sapphires, glass, enamel from the legendary Al-...
04/17/2023

Mughal India, c. 1575–1625
Baroque pearl, gold set with rubies, emeralds, sapphires, glass, enamel from the legendary Al-Tahni collection
This pendant, in the form of a figure modelled around a baroque pearl, represents a fine example of the dialogue between Italy and India in the jewelled arts at the time of the Renaissance. Using gems in Indian kundan settings, the pendant may have been made by a European goldsmith working in India. The figure may be a snake god, Nagadevata. The Nagas were semi-divine, with a human face and the neck of a cobra. The large pearl came to India through trade, either from the Pacific Ocean or from waters off the coast of America. The composition of the pendant is directly inspired by sixteenth-century Italian prototypes and reflects Mughal interests in the arts of the West.

  

A detail from a fine Delhi portrait, circa 1820, once in the royal collection in Mandi...... Note the fine black Kashmir...
04/17/2023

A detail from a fine Delhi portrait, circa 1820, once in the royal collection in Mandi...... Note the fine black Kashmiri shawl draped on the sitter 🥰

  

Georgy Makarov, a Russian vintage automobile enthusiast and creative soul, covered his Zhiguli VAZ 27011 car with an ass...
04/17/2023

Georgy Makarov, a Russian vintage automobile enthusiast and creative soul, covered his Zhiguli VAZ 27011 car with an assortment of carpets. In his words, “ ‘Carpets’ is my vision made real. It is made up of three concepts: the Soviet Union, the ‘Zhiguli’ brand and carpets. For me, these are inseparable things, so I connected them in one car. Now it is an art form, a historical monument, and just a means of transportation.”
  

Rug shop in Cappadocia   
04/17/2023

Rug shop in Cappadocia

  

Figurative Qashqai rug from HEYBATLOU clan with a daring colour combination Depicting two figures in indigenous garbDime...
04/17/2023

Figurative Qashqai rug from HEYBATLOU clan with a daring colour combination
Depicting two figures in indigenous garb
Dimension 176 * 122 cm

"The Qashqai are renowned for their pile carpets and other woven wool products. They are sometimes referred to as "Shiraz" because Shiraz was the major marketplace for them in the past. The wool produced in the mountains and valleys near Shiraz is exceptionally soft and beautiful and takes a deeper color than wool from other parts of Iran.

"No wool in all Persia takes such a rich and deep colour as the Shiraz wool. The deep blue and the dark ruby red are equally extraordinary, and that is due to the brilliancy of the wool, which is firmer and, so to say, more transparent than silk, and makes one think of translucent enamel".

Qashqai carpets have been said to be "probably the most famous of all Persian tribal weavings".Qashqai saddlebags, adorned with colorful geometric designs, "are superior to any others made"."


  

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