LACMA's Damascus Room to be lent to Saudi museum

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced the loan of over 130 pieces from its Islamic art collection to the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture.
The museum is due to open in 2016. This loan will feature LACMA’s previously unseen Damascus Room. The museum acquired the work as the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, it is a largely complete 18th-century interior from Damascus. Described as a typical piece from the sumptuous buildings of the historical city of Damascus pre modernization, Linda Kormaroff from LACMA describes the piece’s “multicolored inlaid stone floors, painted wood walls, elaborate cupboard doors and storage niches, a spectacular arch with plaster voussoirs decorated with colored inlays that served to divide the room into upper and lower sections separated by a single tall step; and an intricately inlaid stone wall fountain with a carved and painted hood.”