Damascus Room | Museum Artwork

This video covers the recent and more distant history of an eighteenth-century period room and its remarkable journey from Damascus to Los Angeles. It documents a four-year long process of study and conservation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Now restored, the room exudes a kind of grace, warmth and beauty, which is in keeping with its original function as a place for welcoming guests.
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[@youtubeexpert2441]

Thank you for preserving our heritage.

[@mohamadnaseebaldabbas9473]

I'm from Damascus This room looks really like old damascene room

[@labib1965]

my grandmother old house had rooms like this one

[@SalsabilAlmaniya]

Wow, it's amazing!

[@melikshah9595]

It was**

[@jackbettar963]

Is it a real house from Damascus or is it a copy??

[@marcmalki734]

The wood ceiing and panelling , are elements preserved from an original ancient mansion in Damascus under the Ottoman rule. Most other elements, also original art or craft works, originally from other locations, successfully help to reconstitute the appearance of a wealthy Damascus' room in the 18th century.

[@srt4874]

@@marcmalki734 this has nothing to do with ottomans

[@barrymoore4470]

@@srt4874 He was simply indicating that the room was fashioned and furnished at a time when Damascus was under Ottoman dominion. So there is that association, though Damascus remained an Arab city, and the room reflects then prevailing Damascene taste.

[@srt4874]

@@barrymoore4470 yes

[@benavraham4397]

Strange how it is that the Palestinian🇵🇸😒 (Muslim) people never built anything like this! Nothing worth seeing existed in Palestine 🇵🇸😒, until the Jews🇮🇱 built it.

[@AlaaH]

Probably because its all lost when Israel destroyed them in 1948 :)

[@benavraham4397]

@@AlaaH Did Haifa or Jaffa ever compare to Beirut? It's really imbarassing😖 how backward everything was in the Holy Land! Even the Dome of the Rock had holes in the dome and tiles falling off the walls.

[@AlaaH]

@@benavraham4397 what exactly are you trying to imply ?

[@benavraham4397]

@@AlaaH People look at Israel today and imagine, that old Palestine was about the same, except it was Arab with very few Jews. But that is not true! What became Palestine in 1923, was a loser land in the Ottoman🇹🇷 empire. Anyone who had big ideas about living comfortably, went to live in Beirut, Tripoli, Damascus, Aleppo or Egypt. It was all Ottoman and anyone could move to wherever they wanted, like going from Louisiana to Texas. So people who wanted to build a big house, built it in Damascus and not in Nablus.That is why very few Jews lived the Holy Land in the 19th century. Most Jews wanted to live comfortable lives, and the Holy Land, as close as it was, was a total dump. So Jews lived in Damascus, Beirut etc. Palestine was a broken down dump. The Jews who lived there under Ottoman🇹🇷 rule were motivated by religious piety🕎. Jews who wanted money💰, stayed away. Then murderous Jew-hatred violence started in the 19th century, and Jews were on the move. The Zionists✡️ convinced the British🇬🇧 to help them, and Palestine was created for the Zionists. The Zionists and British invested huge amounts of money💰 in Palestine, and the land returned to life. After WWII, Jews abondoned their old centers of settlement, and went anywhere. About half settled in America🇺🇲 and half settled in Palestine🇬🇧/Israel🇮🇱. What is imbarassing, is that Ottoman🇹🇷 Jews✡️ did not settle in the Holy Land until money💰 from Europe was invested there. If the Ottomans🇹🇷 had invested in they Holy Land, more population would have been drawn there (including Arabic speaking Jews✡️), and the Zionists would never have succeeded in getting British help. As it is, most of the Arabic speaking Jews settled in Israel🇮🇱 after 1948, the pre-Zionist Jews completely assimilated into Israeli society, and very few Jews live in the Arab nations today. Until the Russian Jews came to Israel in the 1990's, most Israeli Jews were from Arab counties, and the largest group in Israel was Moroccan🇲🇦 Jews✡️.

[@AlaaH]

@@benavraham4397 Nice propaganda buddy

[@tompommerel2136]

Sorry, but the over-reverent, if not ingratiating, delivery of the narrator is a bit of a turn-off.