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Eight ivory ribs cross inside a gold ring on deep blue, making an eight-pointed star with an octagon at its heart; the cells between them lighten from blue at the rim through turquoise to pale honey at the centre.
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Ribbed Dome

No. 2 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeEight ivory ribs cross inside a gold ring on deep blue, making an eight-pointed star with an octagon at its heart; the cells between them lighten from blue at the rim through turquoise to pale honey at the centre.

What it meansDomes carried on intersecting ribs, each rib joining one side of an octagon to the third side along, were built in Islamic Spain and North Africa; the plan seen from below is this star.

Where it worksQuiet and centred, it suits a bedroom, a hallway or a reading corner.

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A tall glass lamp with a flared neck, a broad body and a high foot hangs on gold chains; its cobalt bands are pierced with rows of small stars and three large star windows, all lit warm from the flame inside.The LampNo. 4
An arcade of horseshoe arches on slender dark piers, every arch built of alternating terracotta and cream wedge stones, under a gold rule in a deep, warm hall.VoussoirsNo. 5
A symmetrical spray rises from two curling saz leaves to a red tulip at the top, with cobalt carnations, turquoise tulips and red rosettes on either side, framed in a blue border.Iznik Tulip TileNo. 6
A framed panel of white tiles, each with a cobalt rosette and red tulips pointing to its four sides and curving saz stems reaching to the corners, where quarter-circles meet in scalloped cobalt medallions; the frame falls on the tiles' own centre lines.Four TilesNo. 7
A framed field of lapis eight-point stars with gold centres, turquoise petals and small red four-point stars, bound together by interlaced gold bands.Painted CeilingNo. 8
A gold twelve-pointed star ringed by turquoise petals and red points, outlined in ivory within a dark circle on an ivory sheet, with a quarter of the same rosette in each corner.Rosette of TwelveNo. 9
On a brown leather ground, gold tooled lines form a sixteen-fold rosette in a double ring at the centre, with quarter rosettes in each corner and a dotted border between two ruled frames.Binding, SixteenNo. 10

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