ISSUE 122 MAY/JUNE 2002
CONTENTS
n| EDITORIAL
LACMA and the Czartoryski: unravelling the history of a silk tapestry.
15] LETTERS
Peter Bichler follows in the footsteps of Captain Cook: Hans Sienknecht identifies an Ersari design: Ronnie Newman and the soul of Ijarki^la; Nick W right calls for unbiased vetting.
19 j NEWS
The New York and London spring rug sales: new faces in the marketplace: Mansour by Royal Appointment: remembering Joseph Friedland.
211FRAGMENTS
Holbein's Madonna faces exile from Darmstadt: curtains for Handel: stitching the immortals Japanese style: Oxford's May Beattie lecture: Bishkek the lastest ICOC regional rug conference venue.
35 | PREVIEW
Exhibitions: A new textile gallery for the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: objets extraordinaires and the Carre Rive Gauche: plus, Guizhou festival costume at the Mingei Museum, San Diego; the Washington TM takes a close look at silk; Armenian rugs in San Francisco; Alberto Levi's antique textile art comes to New York: quilts and more at the Shelburne Museum Fairs: Gearing up for the 2002 HALI Fair at Olympia.
7311CALENDAR
A worldwide listing of auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences.
79 | ISLAMIC ART
The V&A gets to grips with its Middle Eastern holdings: a major Islamic acquisition for LACMA; Florentine public collections on show at the Pitti Palace; Julian Raby to direct the Freer Gallery, auctions, the art of Afghanistan.
85 | BOOKS
/pelt, The Crescent and the Rose, the longawaited multi-author study of Ottoman silks and velvets, reviewed by Carlo Maria Suriano; Rachel Ward looks at two important catalogues of Islamic glass by
Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse; Lisa Monnas on Robes and Honor, The Medieval World of Investiture; Rosemary Crill reviews Peter Andrews' comprehensive fe/t Tents and Pavilions; Cynthia Shaver looks at Anna Jackson's Japanese Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and Jose Luczyc-Wyhowska on Peter Davies' Antique Kilims of Anatolia.
89ITITLES RECEIVED
A selection of recently published books and catalogues.
911WORKSHOP
Harald Bohmer on indigo blue.
106 | FORUM
Hotly contested at auction, a set of watercolour studies of carpets from an Indian royal collection appeared to be a 19th century royal commission. Steven Cohen thinks otherwise.
1081THE MODERN ERA AND
RUGS IN THE WEST Fiona Leslie From Victorian florals to the postmodern avant garde, rugs travelled a long way in the 20th century. This overview of significant trends in Europe and the US highlights the increasing commitment of mainstream artists to rug design, and the growing influence of interior design specialists.
114 | HAMADAN VILLAGE
RUGS AReappraisal Tad Runge The varied design repertoire of Haniadan village rugs is reason enough to re-evaluate this flourishing cottage industry. The author's collection of early 20th century 1 lamadans forms the basis of this fresh look at a familiar family of northwest Persian rugs.
120 | I N THE GRAND
MANNER Tapestry in the Renaissance la in Buchanan Designed to impress, the great Renaissance tapestries speak of the power and wealth of their royal patrons. In the first show of its kind for decades, the Metropolitan Museum has recreated the splendour of an age of pride and confidence, with tapestries from the Low Countries, France and Italy.
1251THE HALI GALLERY
A house style advertisement section.
133 | REVIEW
Exhibitions: Rugs and textiles along the Silk Road at the 1 lenry Art Gallery, Seattle; Tibetan rugs at Zveiger, Lugano; Japanese fisherman's coats at UCLA; Coptic textiles at Girona; Persian. Turk ish and Caucasian rugs at Mohtashem in Milan; African rhythms at Joss Graham, London amd the Whitworth Gallery Manchester; Asian acquisitions in Nice; the art of Faster Island at the Met; 18th century silks at the Abegg. Fairs: A full round-up of the spring season of Asian, Tribal and Textile art in San Francisco. Munich. Maastricht and New York.
149 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE
CLO's important European tapestry sale last November, plus a roundup of the best of the rest from the winter sales on both sides of the Atlantic,
157!DESIGN FILE
Dennis Dodds profiles Stephanie Odegard: Doris Leslie Blau's first collection of contemporary design carpets; Archie Brennan tapestries at Gail Martin: Afghan rugs at Rufus Reade; Japanese contemporary textiles at UCLA.
165 NETWORK
A classified advertisement section.
173 I PROFILE
Ahmet l.rtug, publisher extraordinaire, talks to Philippa Scott.
175IPARTI NG SHOTS
Participants at Miinchen Textile Art.
1761 LAST PAGE
How rice pudding can change your life, at least on the shores of the Bosphorus. Recollections and recipes from Turkish Pudding Inspector Thomas Corsten.
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