by George Michell (Author) HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION GOOD - HAS A POST CARD AND A USED MUSEUM TICKET WITH BOOK - BOOK SIZE 11 1/2 X 13 1/2 - PUBLISHED BY INDIA BOOK HOUSE - COPYRIGHT 2008 - BOOK HAS FOLD OUT PAGES
..In book "Jodhpur's Umaid Bhawan The Maharaja Of Palaces" authors Aman Nath and Pasricha Holmes explore making of the Umaid Bhawan Palace of Jodhpur, with unique European art deco interior and British-civic exterior. This palace was built during early 20th century with the help of British architects and European interior designers. This book helps you understanding how it stands tall with the western and oriental confluences.....The full story of the world’s grandest art deco palace of the 1940s
The magnificence and scale of Jodhpur’s Umaid Bhawan, with its 347 rooms and elaborate gardens, its seemingly endless corridors and, for the 1940s, very modern comforts, make it one of the most enviable of royal residences anywhere in the world. Strikingly Art Deco in style, Umaid Bhawan also abides by the architectural guidelines formulated by the temple-mountain palaces of ancient South-East Asian god-kings. The authors, while meticulously tracing the origins of Henry Vaughan Lanchester’s design, reveal its quintessential cultural sincerity. The architect’s assured familiarity with Hindu ritual and symbolism was incorporated into his plan; in stark contrast, the more famous Edwin Lutyens, who disdained all things Indian, had to be coerced into including indigenous elements in the design for New Delhi’s Viceroy’s House. Aman Nath has made of this most sumptuous of palaces a most sumptuous book. Not even Buckingham Palace, which could well have been the model Umaid Bhawan set out to surpass, has inspired so rich a canvas. Its 172 pages encompass rare archival material, over three hundred colour photographs as well as nine stunning panoramic gatefolds.