{"id":218513,"date":"2023-11-30T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=218513"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:11:45","slug":"damascus-room-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/damascus-room-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience Damascus Room at the L.A. County Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\"Damascus
Damascus Room, an 18th-century, 300-square-foot chamber imported from Syria, has been acquired by Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a permanent installation debuting there December 17, featuring carved poplar panels and cupboard doors adorned with stone mosaics, gesso reliefs, and plaster motifs. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n

November 30, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Lisa Di Venuta<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Courtesy of Museum Associates\/Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

Experience Damascus Room at the L.A. County Museum of Art<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In 18th-century Syria, members of the wealthy El-Mourabeh family feted honored guests with banquets of lamb samosas, kunafa pastry, and dried fruit in the reception hall of their estate. This Ottoman splendor is rendered in modern context as Damascus Room, debuting for the first time in the U.S. as a permanent installation at Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/a> in December. Acquired in 2012, the 15-by-20-foot chamber was imported to L.A. by way of London in 24 crates and reassembled this past summer. Its poplar panels, carved with Arabic poetry and embossed with ajami gypsum reliefs, veneered in brass leaf and painted with gesso pigments, offer historical mise-en-sc\u00e8ne for the museum\u2019s simultaneous exhibition, \u201cDining With the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting,\u201d which will present Islamic art in the context of its associated culinary traditions through some 250 antique stone-inlaid silver vessels, embroidered Turkish napkins, and tinned copper salt shakers. There will also be an interactive holographic dining experience, further transporting visitors to the cradle of civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Damascus
Damascus Room, an 18th-century, 300-square-foot chamber imported from Syria, has been acquired by Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a permanent installation debuting there December 17, featuring carved poplar panels and cupboard doors adorned with stone mosaics, gesso reliefs, and plaster motifs. It will be accompanied by some 250 food-related relics in \u201cDining With the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting,\u201d which runs through August 4, 2024.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
\"Detail<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"floral<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"green<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n