James Hubbell's Palace Doors of Abu Dhabi [Hardcover]

Otto B. Rigan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Hidden House Pubns (January 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825638690
• ISBN-13: 978-0825638695
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,957,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A visual fantasy in stained glass..., November 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: James Hubbell's Palace Doors of Abu Dhabi (Hardcover)

Stained glass never reached such exquisite and unique heights until the day James Hubbell decided to work in this medium. The doors of the palace are a visual feast for those who appreciate beauty,art and fantasy. Hubbell uses stained glass, precious,semi precious stones and metals to create doors worthy of a magical dream. All of the pictures in the book are in color. If you are a stained glass artist or if you simply appreciate the manner in which an artist expresses his vision of the world this is a book you must possess.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book's great ... and available!, July 5, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: James Hubbell's Palace Doors of Abu Dhabi (Hardcover)

James Hubbell is one of the most talented contemporary stained glass artists working in the United States. This book documents the work he did for the palace of an Arabian prince. Full color photographs demonstrate the lushness of his designs and the glory of their settings

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars About This Book, June 25, 2008

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Theseus "theseus" (US of A) - See all my reviews

Artist James Hubbell was commissioned by an Arabian Sheikh to design and build eighteen doors for his home palace in the United Arab Emirates.

This richly illustrated book -- with 96 pages of color -- tells the story of the Doors and their creation, as well as visually documents the magnificent finished works. The introductory essay by Rigan relates to the reader as storyteller as well as critic, telling of the commission's development the Doors value as a work of art...

...an orchestration of Eastern and Western traditions, multiple aesthetics, and multiple media...as art they are both real and abstract, expressing enough to us to embue the works with individual meaining, but still allowing us a margin for personal interpretation...graceful and primitive, refined and rough-hewn, luminous and dark....