This is a post that’s been sitting around waiting to happen for 18 months now. I just can’t find the time to devote to this blog that I would like to, even though it consumes most of my weekends. The folder is called “arabic doors” and dates back to January 2015, but the topic is rather broader than that. Actually there is a post from that date and this is basically a carry-over: material that I wasn’t able to include in that post.
Around that time I did a lot of family development work for a project that is now on site, one that attempts to conjure up the atmosphere of an “old quarter” in one of the Gulf towns. Arabic doors are a well-known motif from that style of architecture: richly carved planks of hardwood nailed to cross-pieces to form two narrow leaves, opening inwards.
These doors typically lead into long narrow rooms, roofed over with palm trunks beams. The walls are lined with a rhythm of niches and shuttered windows. You can get an idea of the…
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