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Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture In Secular And Religious Life
by Kamansky, David (ed.)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1932476172
- ISBN 13
- 9781932476170
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004. 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.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009898
- Title
- Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture In Secular And Religious Life
- Author
- Kamansky, David (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1932476172
- ISBN 13
- 9781932476170
- Publisher
- Serindia Publications
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Far East; Antiques & Collectibles; Religion;
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