Writings

ISLAMIC ART:
Thesis:
Catalogue raisonné des tapis ottomans et mamlouk dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, defended with the "compliments du jury" (magna cum laude). Paris, Ecole du Louvre, 1985. Directors: Marthe Bernus-Taylor, Keeper, Islamic Department, Musée du Louvre and Dr. Walter Denny, Professor at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst
Books and catalogues:
"Oriental Carpet Design" in Word Rugs and Carpets, edited by David Black, MacMillan, London, 1985 pp.25-35
"Les Français et le Tapis d'Orient", in Le Tapis, un Présent de l'Orient à l'Occident, catalogue of the exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1989-90, p. 13-16
Tapis d'Orient du XVIème au XVIIIème siècle, catalogue of the exhibition organised by the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, September 1995 - January 1996
"Between a Tribal and a Court Art: the Turkish Carpet" and "The Carpets of Safavid Persia: Gardens of Earthly Delight" in Great Carpets of the World, New York: Vendome Press; London: Thames & Hudson; Paris: Èditions Mengès-Sand, 1996, pp.50-161
%quot;Jules Maciet et le gout du tapis islamique", in Purs décors? Arts de l'Islam, regards du XIXe siècle. Collections des Arts décoratifs/edited by Rémi Labrousse. Paris: Les Arts décoratifs, 2007, pp. 302-309; catalogue pp. 324-334, n°s 1-9; 11bis; 12 - 18; 69; 79 - 92; 93 - 98; 149 - 156; 157 - 165; 219 - 223; 230; 234
"Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Textile Art. Exchanges and Interactions", in Istanbul, Isfahan, Delhi. Three Capitals of Islamic Art. Masterpieces from the Louvre Collection/edited by Nazan Ölcer; Sophie Makariou. Istanbul: Sabanci Museum; Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2008, pp. 52-61; 98-104; 109; 194-202; 286-294
"L'Orient" in Musée des tissus, Lyon. Guide des collections/edited by Maria-Anne Privat-Savigny, Lyon: Musée des Tissus, 2010, pp. 28-32, 34-75
Articles:
"Un singulier tapis turkmène dans les collections du Musée des Arts Décoratifs", Revue du Louvre, 1981, no. 5/6 p. 337-344
"Chinoiserie in Islamic Carpet Design", Hali, no. 48, November 1989, p. 38-45
"Heraldic Devices of Turkish Peoples and their Relationship to Carpets", Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, vol. III-2, November 1989 p. 235-249
"Tales of Totems and Tamghas", Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, vol.IV, 1993 (proceedings of the VIth ICOC, San Francisco, 1990) p. 255-266
"A glimpse of Paradise park", Hali no. 83, vol. 17, October-November 1995, p. 106-108
"Paradise gained: the Design of Classical Carpets in the Light of Timurid Painting", Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies, vol. V-2 1999, pp. 7-17
"Poldi's Pride" (presentation of the collections of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan), cloudband.com, 1999
"From Cradle to Grave. Textiles in the Daily Life of the Orient", cloudband.com, February 2001
"The Tree of Life, a Universal Symbol", Orient Carpet and Textile Studies, (proceedings of the VIIIth ICOC, Milan, 1999), vol. VI, 2001, pp. 1-15
"The Artist's Eye. Carpet and Textile Collections of the Orientalists", Hali, n° 126, January-February, 2003, pp. 74-75
"A Connoisseur and a Gentleman: Jules Maciet and the Musée des arts décoratifs". Hali, n° 153, Autumn 2007, pp. 92-101
"An Exciting Discovery. A Kashmiri Textile of the Mughal Period in the Musèe de la Mode et du Textile/Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Preliminary Findings", Bulletin du CIETA, n° 86-87, 2009-2010 (published 2021), pp. 66-94
"New Perspectives for Two Prestigious Carpet Collections. The Louvre Museum and Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris", Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies (proceedings of the XIth ICOC, Istanbul, 2007), 2011, pp. 147-156
"The Tree of Life. Textiles and Carpets in the Context of Nature Worship", Hali. Carpet, Textile and Islamic Art, no. 170, winter 2011, pp 86-95.
Reviews:
"Today's Certainties", review of volume I of the proceedings of the VIIIth ICOC devoted to Salting carpets, Hali, n° 110, May-June, 2000 pp. 74-75
Susan Day, "Soies de paradis. Tapis et Textiles d'Orient du Musée de Tissus Lyon by Armen Tokatlian", Hali n° 159, Spring 2009, pp. 130-131
TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND THE DECORATIVE ARTS:

Books and exhibition catalogues:
Louis Süe, Architectures. Paris: Institut Français d'Architecture; Brussels: Editions Pierre Mardaga, 1986
Louis Süe, Architecte des Années Folles, Associé d'André Mare, catalogue of the exhibition at the Institut Français d'Architecture. Paris: Institut français d'architecture; Brussels: Eds Pierre Mardaga, 1986
Jean-Charles Moreux (1889-1956), Architecte, Décorateur et Paysagiste, Paris: Institut Français d'Architecture; Eds Norma, 1999
Art Deco and Modernist Carpets, London: Thames & Hudson; Paris: Editions Norma, 2002
"Arts décoratifs. Le Salon d'Automne. Creuset de recherches décoratives modernes", in L'Art en effervescence. Cent ans du Salon d'Automne 1903-2003/edited by Noël Coret. Paris: Assocation du Salon d'Automne/Eds Casta Diva, Paris, 2003, vol. II, pp. 9-72
"A Meeting of Minds. Jean-Charles Moreux and the Véra Brothers", in Paul et André Véra, Tradition et Modernité. catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée municipal, Saint Germain-en-Laye, 2008 p. 22-37
"Jean Charles Moreux (1889-1956) Un umanista del XX secolo", in I libri dell'architetto Jean-Charles Moreux /edited by Giovanni Maria Fara; Daniela Tovo. Vicenza: Centro internazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladio; Leo S. Olschki ed., 2008, pp. ix-xiii
Articles:
"L'Architecture à la mode"", Pole Position, n° 2, June 1985, n.p.
"Louis Süe. Le 'home' à la française", Beaux-Arts, n° 40, November 1986, pp. 74-81
"Les Tapis de Jean Lurçat" in Jean Lurçat, le Combat et la Victoire. Aubusson 1992 Centenaire, catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée de la Tapisserie, Aubusson, 1992, pp. 72-76
"Art Deco Masterworks. The Carpets of Da Silva Bruhns", Hali, n° 105, July-August, 1999, pp. 78-81
"Un Maître du Tapis Art Déco : Ivan Da Silva Bruhns", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, n° 369, May 2002, pp. 3-11
"Visual Poetry : Orphic Cubism and the Work of Robert and Sonia Delaunay", Hali, n° 136, September-October 2004, pp. 76-85
Reference Works:
"Louis Süe", inventory of the architect's archives in Archives d'Architecture du XXe Siècle. Paris: Institut Français d'Architecture/Paris: Eds Pierre Mardaga, 1991, pp. 458-496
Biographical notices on the architects André Arfvidsen, Pierre Patout and Louis Süe in the MacMillan Dictionary of Art, London
Biographical notices on thirty-three architects and designers in the Allegemeines Künstlerlexikon, Leipzig: Saur Vg. (re-edition of the Thieme Becker dictionary)
LIBRARY SCIENCE:

Articles:
"Creating a Database from a Network of Shared Indexing: the ARCHIRES project", Art Libraries Journal, Vol. 16-2, 1991, p. 21-23 (with Rosine Cohu and Claire Dubos)
"Beyond the Book: Sources of Electronic Information on Architecture in France", Art Documentation, Fall 1995 p. 19-23 (proceedings of the ARLIS NA congress, Montreal, 1995)
"La Bibliothèque de l'Institut Français d'architecture", Bulletin d'Informations Architecturales, March, 1997
WALTER PERCY DAY:

Articles:
Biographical notice on Walter Percy Day [with Lenny Borger] in the Allegemeines Künstlerlexikon, Leipzig: Saur Vg.
Susan Day; Réjane Hamus-Vallée, “Walter Percy Day (1878 - 1965), pionnier britannique des effets spéciaux français des années 20”, 1895. Revue d'hisoire du cinéma, no. 80, winter 2016, pp. 108 - 127
WEBITES:
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