catalogue credits
Foreword
The Metaphor City
Silk and Metal Carpets
from the Qing Dynasty
The Wings of the
Phoenixes
Bibliography

Catalogue published for The Flower of Buddha
an exhibition by
Doris Leslie Blau & Danon

19 March -15 June 2007
Danon Gallery
Fuller Building - 595 Madison Avenue
New York

Special thanks to the collectors
for the permission to publish their carpets

thanks for their collaboration to
Nadia Fiussello, Carlotta Romano,
Susan Freedman, Lisabeth Bastone,
Nina Schroeren, Alison Bradley

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Catalogue by
Enzo e Roberto Danon

THE METAPHOR CITY
AYin-Yang guide to the Purple Forbidden City
by Loretta Paderni
is based on
Dans La Cité Pourpre Interdite
by Cyrille Javary,
ed. Philippe Picquier, 2001

texts by
Loretta Paderni
Museo Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico
“Luigi Pigorini”
Egidio Cossa
Museo Nazionale Preistorico ed Etnografico
“Luigi Pigorini”

translated into english by Lowell Ellis

Chinese translations by Maria Luisa Giorgi
Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale

research
Ester Armentano

photography
Giampiero Medori

graphic design
Paolo Sèstito

graphic assistant
Serenella Sèstito

photolitho Composit

printed by Selegrafica 80

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