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SdA 2-48 — Le palais koti sorkh (maison rouge) à Paghman

Une autre vue du parc et palais koti sorkh dans la domaine royale bala bagh à Paghman, très pareille de SdA 2-40. Au centre la façade sud du palais. A droite deux statues de l’artiste hongrois Farago, une sur un piédestal sculpté au milieu des massifs de fleure, la deuxième sur une colonne.
BALA-BAGH PAGHMAN \\ bala bagh / paghman.
[légendes surajoutées sur deux petit papiers blanc :] LA RESIDENCE D’ETE DE SA MAJESTE AMANULLAH KHAN, PAGHMAN \\ emarat-e bahari-ye alahazrat amanullah khan. [Résidence printannière de S. M. Amanullah]
  • Souvenir d’Afghanistan, série 1 (petit format) : n’y figure pas.
  • Souvenir d'Afghanistan, série 3 (double face) SdA 3-035 : identique.
  • Collection Espace Albert Kahn (1928) : Série Afghanistan, Frédéric Gadmer, inv. A 58569 D (6112), photographie en couleur prise le 16.10.1928 : exactement la même vue du koti sorkh, prise une année après SdA 3-036.
  • Parr, D.J. (1975) : Architecture in Afghanistan, 1880-1929, pp. 145-147 et Fig. 181-186 : description du koti sorkh de l’émir Amanullah Khan, construit environ 1920, p. 145 : «The Koti Surk was the first structure built in Bala Bagh, and was Amanullah’s office – here he would conduct governmental business, receive his officials, and entertain visitors. […]»
  • Dupree, N.H. (1977) : Early 20th Century Afghan Adaptations of European Architecture, p. 20 : description du style architectural des nouvelles constructions entreprises sous Amanullah à Paghman.
  • Dupree, N.H. (1980) : A Building Boom in the Hindukush, Afghanistan 1921-1928, ill. 9, p. 119 (identique, mais renversé) : «Kot-i-Surkh, Bala Bagh, Paghman, architect King Amanullah, 1922.» ; et p. 116 : «In the Bala Bagh (High Garden) at Paghman, a tall wall divided the King's official quarters, containing his office called Kot-i-Surkh (Red House), from his private residence. Kot-i-Surkh was the first building to incorporate an oriel window and two-storey veranda, two elements which subsequently enjoyed great popularity. At Kot-i-Safeed (White House), a residential-guest house just north of the office, massive two-storeyed 5-window bays were dominated by ornate round windows with foliated scrolls decorating the spandrels suggestive of Amir Abdur Rahman's period.»
    […]
    «Hidden among the bowers of the terraced gardens were several pavilions, fountains, tennis courts and a swimming pool, in addition to garden statuary made entirely from brick finished with gypsum plaster to simulate marble. Such statuary was a novelty, and those in human form created controversy among the King's conservative subjects who accused him of becoming an idol worshipper.»
  • Adamec, L.W. (1985) : Kabul and Southeastern Afghanistan, p. 614 : Paghman.
  • Schinasi, M. (2008) : Kabul 1773-1948, pp. 132-133 : description des projets à Paghman ; concernant les constructions nouvelles à Paghman, p. 133 : «[…] A Paghman, où des dizaines de villas sortirent de terre, on assista à des combinaisons étonnantes de styles et de motifs architecturaux et décoratifs, rehaussées par les teintes pastel des badigeons extérieurs ; […]»
Image No.
SdA 2-48
Collection
Souvenir d’Afghanistan 1925-1927
Series
SdA 2 (grand format, 1926) 01 à 51 : Roi Amanullah
Format
148/192 mm (broché : + 21 mm marge) couverture orange, rouge ou verte
Quality
Version noir et blanc : excellente version coloriée : flou dû à la colorisation
Place, date
Paghman, 1922
Descriptors
  • 0108. Paghman
  • 1.57 Pictures of Landscapes, Cities
  • 3.721 Sculpture in Stone / Stucco
  • 3.825 Representative / Administrative Buildings
  • 3.829 Parks / Gardens
  • 4.371 Emir/King Amanullah (1919-1929)
  • Latitude / Longitude34.605136 / 68.944543
    Google Earth34°36’18'' N / 68°56’41'' E / 2440 m

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