MAK, Vienna to reopen permanent carpet gallery in April 2014 The Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (MAK) will reopen its permanent carpet display on Tuesday 8 April 2014. Housed in an architectural ‘spatial concept’ by Viennese interdisciplinary designer Michael Embacher, who took his inspiration from silk, the purpose-built gallery will showcase an array of distinctive, high-quality carpets, most which were part of the Habsburg Imperial holdings, that make this one of the world’s best-known and most valuable collections. Classical Egyptian, Persian, Turkish and Indian carpets – pinnacles of oriental woven artistry – are the highlights of the new presentation, including the MAK’s famed Safavid hunting carpet, probably woven in Kashan in first half 16th century, a Mamluk carpet from late 15th century Cairo, and a figurative north Indian carpet from the era of Akbar the Great, around 1600. Hali
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:31:20 +0000
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