Anna McSweeney
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
During the nineteenth century there was a vogue among the elite in Britain and the United States for creating Alhambra style smoking rooms in domestic spaces. This fashion for an ‘exotic’ space is perhaps unsurprising in a western context; but the Alhambra style also became popular in the cities of the Middle East. The Alhambra– and by extension Andalusi architectural style — was appropriated as an acceptable kind of ‘pan-Islamic’ style by European architects who were working in the Middle East for local rulers.
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