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| Shangri La - wowwwwww.. this place is amazing |
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| jannah |
| 06/29/04 at 22:19:08 |
| http://www.shangrilahawaii.org http://starbulletin.com/2002/11/03/features/story1.html Check it out.. it was the millionairess Doris Duke's home.. a breathtaking example of Islamic arts and now it's a museum in Hawaii.. It's stunning..I've never seen a house so beautiful. Check out the master bedroom and bathroom and some views of the outside. They have pictures and videos on their website... http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/smithsonian/issues04/mar04/dorisduke.html Doris Duke's Islamic Art Retreat The Honolulu hideaway built by "the richest girl in the world" is now a museum showcasing her unique collection of Islamic art In 1938, American tobacco heiress Doris Duke embarked on one of her periodic shopping trips to Europe and Asia. Then 25, "the Million Dollar Baby"—as newspapers had dubbed her when she was a child—was eagerly acquiring antiques and fragments of old buildings to outfit her lavish new home in Hawaii, which she called Shangri La. "It seems almost incredible," wrote New York Daily News society editor Nancy Randolph, "that there can be a square inch of space left...for another bit of bric-a-brac, after the months and months Doris has spent scouring Europe and the Far East for furnishings and knickknacks." Today those "knickknacks" form the nucleus of one of the most spectacular collections of Islamic art in America. Duke, who died in 1993 at age 80, spent nearly 60 years filling her secluded Hawaiian estate with more than 3,500 art objects, almost all from the Muslim world—ceramics, textiles, carved wood and stone architectural details, metalwork and paintings. The oldest pieces date from the 7th century, but the majority come from the 17th to 19th centuries. Duke left the bulk of her billion-dollar estate to charity. Among other bequests, her will established the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. The foundation transformed her Hawaiian hideaway, which is tucked into an upscale Honolulu neighborhood near Diamond Head on the island of Oahu, into a museum, which opened in November 2002. Access is limited to a dozen visitors at a time, who arrive by van four to six times a day from the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Tours have been sold out since the museum opened, hardly surprising in light of Americans' newfound hunger to understand the Islamic world. An additional lure, of course, is the chance to step inside the dream house of one of the wealthiest, most eccentric and most reclusive public figures of the 20th century. "Walking into that building for the first time was an amazing experience," says Thomas Lentz, director of the Harvard University Art Museums. "It's a kind of marvelous jumble of mediums, periods and quality you wouldn't find anywhere else." |
| 06/29/04 at 23:44:43 |
| jannah |
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| Re: Shangri La - wowwwwww.. this place is amazing |
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| Milaya |
| 06/30/04 at 06:30:28 |
| [slm] :o :o :o AWESOME!!! to have such house seems to be only on my mind.... [] |
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| tree |
| 06/30/04 at 09:08:31 |
| [slm] well i know where i'll be going on my next trip to hawaii! |
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