SHANGRI LA
Doris Duke’s
A GREAT
PHILANTHROPIST’S
LIFELONG PASSION
FOR ISLAMIC ART
AND CULTURE
LIVES ON IN THIS
clockwise from left: Purchased in 1939 for the entrance to the
Mughal Garden, the 19th-century Iranian mosaic tile gateway
was transferred to the dining lanai in the early ’60s. Doris Duke
and her husband James Cromwell by the Jali Pavilion in 1939.
Stencilled ceiling and columns of the Playhouse lanai were
modelled on a 17th-century royal pavilion in Isfahan, Iran.
The bathroom in the Mughal Suite, part of the original
commission from the Cromwells’ visit to India in 1935.ICONIC STYLE