Undiscovered Minimalism: Gelims from Northern Iran PC-Grafik Much as the Gaia theory

Much as the Gaia theory considers our Earth as an integrated whole of living systems

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Additional texts include contributions by Merrill Elam

the contemporary white house is the embodiment of the architectural archetype

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Undiscovered Minimalism: Gelims from Northern Iran PC-Grafik Much as the Gaia theoryOver the course of the past two decades a previously unrecognized genre of startlingly modern looking large flatwoven hangings and covers (gelims) has emerged from an isolated highland region in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. No one had imagined that hidden in the forests south of the Caspian Sea there could have existed such sophisticated treasures, which in their deceptive simplicity of abstract patterning and subtle coloring are much in