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James Hubbell's Palace Doors of Abu Dhabi

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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.

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

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....

James Hubbell's Palace Doors of Abu Dhabi shows art of amazing beauty not avialable to the viewer in any other form. This book is proof that man made things can reach the beauty of nature. James Hubbell, one of the major talents of our time in all mediums from poetry to clay, stain glass to stucco, watercolors to doors,public parks to bronze sculpture The stroy of how the project happened and of some of the many talented people who worked on the project is part of the importance of the book. Among the contributors, Dale Sitts who has worked on many Hubbell projects, had a part of most of the Abu Dhabi Doors and is a talented artisted, builder, designer in his own right.