May1996 110 BOOKS
Reingard Neumann reviews The Persian Velvets at Rosenborg by Carol Bier; Vanessa Moraga on the recently updated English edition of a Spanish original: Textile Art oj Peru: Peruvian Textile Heritage by James Reid et al.; William Christian on the third and final catalogue of the gabbehs belonging to the
Swiss collector Georges D. Hornet.
114 TITLES RECEIVED A selection of recently published books and catalogues.
115 THE HALI GALLERY A distinctive advertisement section in house style.
129 MARKETPLACE
NEWS
France reluctantly opens its doors to foreign auction houses; Unidroil —TEFAF organisers threaten to quit Maastricht; Oriental Rug Heritage Day in Portland. Oregon; a new carpet and textile art fair in Perugia, Italy.
131 AUCTION PRICE GUIDE An exclusive focus on the Bernheimer Family Collection at
Christie’s. London, winnowing the carpets of historical, aesthetic and commercial value from among the superbly marketed chaff.
134 AUCTION REPORTS An overview of the Bernheimer Collection sale; Americana a record price for a historic 18th century needlework, en route to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; period style is back at the VigO-Sternberg sale of European Tapestries.
137 FAIRS
A former TEFAF exhibitor’s view of the 1996 Maastricht fair; Dealers’ Row at the DoubleTree in Santa Monica reviewed in detail; Caskey and Lees stage another high-profile Tribal and Textile Art Show in San Francisco; TVT in Istanbul hitch a ride on a UN world conference to produce a carpet and kilim fair.
143 LOS ANGELES REPORT A selective editorial overview of the oriental rug business in
Los Angeles and its environs.
146 GALLERIES Peter Davies of New York’s Turkana Gallery celebrates his
20th year in the Anatolian kilim business; early Turkish carpets shown in the context of Old Master paintings by the Eskenazi/Franses team at Colnaghi's in London; Clive Rogers’ Anatolian rugs and textiles at Vigo Gallery in London; Michael
Craycraft focuses on Turkmen rugs in a German outing at Galerie Arabesque; Pasha collaborates with other north Italian galleries to show decorative East Turkestan carpets; Azerbaijan rugs, sumakhs and embroideries at Battilossi in Turin.
166 NETWORK A classified advertisement section.
169 CALENDAR A listing of auctions, exhibitions and fairs worldwide.
174 PARTING SHOTS The San Fransisco Tribal Art & Textile Fair, more faces from ACOR 3, plus London’s busy rug week with the Bernheimer sale as well as exhibitions at Sotheby’s and Colnaghi’s.
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