The Myth of the Orient: Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism (English, French and German Edition)

Francine Giese (editor), Ariane Varela Braga (editor)9783034321075, 9783035109450, 9783034323574, 9783034323581, 3034321074

This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular smoking room inspired by the luxurious reception halls in Cairo, which Zeerleder discovered during his travels to the East. At the same time, this collection of essays explores the significance of the famous city on the Nile as a privileged model for 19th-century architecture and ornamentation, bringing together papers by Mercedes Volait (Paris), Romain Siegenfuhr (Paris), Richard Parisot (Besançon), Elke Pflugradt-Abdel Aziz (Düsseldorf), Tarek Ibrahim (Berlin), Vincenza Garofalo (Palermo), Andrea Lermer (München), Rémi Labrusse (Paris), Ariane Varela Braga (Zürich), Leïla el-Wakil (Genève), Francine Giese (Zürich) and Annette Loeffel (Bern).

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Table of contents :
Cover
Acknowledgements
Contents
The Myth of the Orient
Bibliography
Section I: Oriental Visions
Figuration et fortune artistique des intérieurs du Caire au XIXe siècle
Maisons chrétiennes, maisons désertées
Recréer
Bibliographie
Les photographies du Caire peintes par Willem de Famars Testas
Les photographies du Caire du fonds d’Émile Prisse d’Avennes
Les photographies peintes par Willem de Famars Testas
De l’utilité des photographies sur l’œuvre de Willem de Famars Testas
Bibliographie
Architecture(s) du Caire au prisme des récits de voyageuses germanophones au XIXe siècle
Bibliographie
Section II: Architecture – Cairo
Carl von Diebitsch (1819-1869): Moorish Style as State-of-the-art Architecture in 19th-century Cairo
Diebitsch’s bathroom in Schwerin Palace (1857) as nucleus for his further building contracts in Cairo
Diebitsch’s Moorish House in Berlin (1857): functioning as the architect’s own production facility, including his building contracts in Cairo
Diebisch’s building contracts in Cairo (1862-1869)
Diebitsch’s Moorish kiosk at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, specifically designed for the Egyptian viceroy as potential buyer of the exhibition piece
Bibliography
Johann Adam Rennebaum and the Architecture of Shepheard’s Hotel in Cairo
State of Research
Johann Adam Rennebaum, Architect
The Hotel’s Architecture(s)
Bibliography
Section III: Architecture – Transmission
Mamluk Reproductions: Survey and Analysis of Tombs in the Cemetery of Sant’Orsola in Palermo
Bibliography
Von Kairo nach Dresden: Zu den islamischen Vorbildern der Tabak- und Cigarettenfabrik Yenidze, ihrer medialen Vermittlung und formalen Adaption
Der Vorbilder-Pool
Eklektizistische Willkür vs. wissenschaftlicher Differenzierung
Auftraggeber und Architekt
Bibliografie
Section IV: Ornament
Tectonique islamique : un paradigme pour penser l’ornement au XIXe siècle
Crise
Tectonique
Islamicité
Utopie
Bibliographie
Owen Jones and the Oriental Perspective
Travelling East
Scrutinizing Islamic Ornament
The Grammar of Ornament
Bibliography
La Banque Misr du Caire : Antonio Lasciac, les décorateurs italiens et le « style arabe »
Œuvre d’art total et travail d’équipe
Les traits du chef-d’œuvre
Architecture arabe moderne pour une institution égyptienne
Bibliographie
Section V: Selamlik
The Oberhofen Selamlik – a Cairene manḍara made in Switzerland
Neo-Islamic smoking rooms in Switzerland
Albert de Pourtalès – Prussian diplomat and Orient traveller
European Architects Going East
Zeerleder in Cairo
19th century Illustrations of Cairo’s Domestic Architecture
A Cairene manḍara for Oberhofen Castle
Appendix
Bibliography
Restaurierung des Selamlik im Schloss Oberhofen 2010-2013
Angetroffener Zustand
Statische Ertüchtigung der Deckenkonstruktion
Restaurierung der Architekturoberflächen und Textilien
Wandbespannungen
Polychrom bemalte Wände und Decken
Bemalter Klinkerboden
Diwane, Kelims
Schlussbetrachtung
Bibliografie
Abstracts and Biographies