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Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in Secular and Religious Life
By: David Kamansky

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Author: David Kamansky
Format: Paperback, 11" x 9.25"
ISBN: 1932476164

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"The Tibetan style of furnishing is elaborate and luxurious àwhen it is carried out with taste it has a bold, barbaric fascination that can hardly be excelled."

So Fosco Maraini characterized the Tibetan interior during his travels on the plateau in the late 1930s. Within twenty years the world he so vividly described would be swept away in the tide of the Chinese invasion and the later Cultural Revolution. Yet while so much of Tibetan material culture was lost, furniture has survived and re-surfaced in the 21st century as one of the great new subjects in Tibetan design and 'sthetics.

Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in Secular and Religious Life is the catalogue of an exhibition opening in November 2004 at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California. Encompassing masterpieces of Tibetan furniture design and decoration in all its forms, the 148 exhibits are drawn from the large group of public and private collections in the western United States, the result of an active interest in the preservation and research of this long overlooked Tibetan art form.

This particular catalogue does not merely follow the genre's traditional format but seeks to communicate both the 'sthetic significance of these exceptional works of art and the important role they have played over the centuries in the daily and spiritual lives of the people of Tibet. The works in the exhibition, therefore, were selected both for their 'sthetic and historical importance, and most are being publicly displayed for the first time. All are lavishly illustrated in color, and each is accompanied by details of type, date (supported in several cases by Carbon 14 testing), dimensions and description of decoration and materials.

The exhibition and catalogue were developed by an extraordinary team of curators, scholars, and writers led by David Kamansky of the Pacific Asia Museum. Wooden Wonders presents eleven articles from this team ranging from Luca Corona and Camilla Hulse Corona's comprehensive survey of Tibetan furniture types and methods of construction and decoration to more specialist discussions such as Dale Gluckman's article on textile patterns in the furniture's painted decoration and Geshe Lobzang Tsetan's and Kathleen Kernell's elucidation of the ritual uses to which some of the furniture was put. The glossary that closes the book provides for the first time a review of the terminology associated with Tibetan furniture.

Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in Secular and Religious Life, David Kamansky, Serindia,
Paperback, 2004, 355 Pages, $49.95

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Director's Statement
Joan Marshall

8

Acknowledgements

11

List of Lenders to the Exhibition

13

Introduction
David Kamansky

23

Tibetan Furniture: Construction, Form and Function
Luca Corona and Camilla Hulse Corona

61
Some Links Between Tibetan Furniture, Wall Mural and Thangka Painting
Jonathan Bell

71
A Multifaceted Realtionship;
Textiles and Tibetan Painted Furniture
Dale Carolyn Gluckman

87

The Tibeto-Newar Furniture of Kyirong
Ian Alsop

95
Tibetan Tables: The Evolution of Style and Function
Tony Anninos

107
The Stanford Table: A Fifteenth Century Lama Table
John Listopad

111
The Power and Purpose of Tibetan Furniture: A Collector's Experience
Ruth Sutherlin Hayward

143
Torgams and Yangams and Their Ritual Use
Geshe Lobzang with Kathleen Kernell

159
Offerings to the Protectors of the Buddha's Teachings
Stephen Markel

163
Sacred Inspiration, Practical Adaptions: At Home in Tibet
Pamela Logan

177
Catalogue

331
Glossary of Terms

339
Bibliography

345
Carbon 14 Analysis

347

Index

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