Doha Modern

Assouline - EAN : 9781649807656

CHILTON NICOLA

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EAN : 9781649807656

Paru le : 12 nov. 2026

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EAN13 : 9781649807656
Collection : CLASSICS
Editeur : Assouline
Date Parution : 12 nov. 2026
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 297
Format : H:330 mm L:250 mm E:40 mm
Poids : 2.898kg
Interdit de retour : Retour interdit

Résumé

Résumé : In the middle of Souq Waqif, a giant golden thumb by French sculptor César Baldaccini rises from the ground. An hour away, the East-West/West-East monumental public land art installation featuring four steel plates by American sculptor Richard Serra stand across a kilometer of open desert. On the Corniche, the royal camel guard passes lines of luxury cars while the towers of West Bay glitter behind. To the visitor, it is a thrilling sight. To the local, it is any other day.

Doha Modern is a portrait of a capital where the ancient and the modern collide. Writing from within the region, Nicola Chilton guides readers on a journey through the city’s senses: the fragrance of bakhoor and frying luqaimat, the cry of falcons behind the souk, the heat coming off the dunes at noon. Beneath the skyline lies a far longer story. Neolithic carvings of dhows and fish at Al Jassasiya. A pearling economy that sent divers into the Gulf for months while those on shore waited for their return. Then oil, independence, and a transformation that brought I.M. Pei out of retirement and Jean Nouvel to the desert rose.

The title takes you takes you through the present, past, and future, from the bisht placed on Lionel Messi’s shoulders at Lusail in 2022 to the museums still rising along the Corniche. This is not a survey of a city but an encounter with one, where image and word together place readers inside its light, its heat, and its rhythms, and leave them with the sense of having been there. Across souk and sea, desert and skyline, Doha Modern reveals a city unlike anywhere else on earth.
Biographie : Nicola Chilton is a writer and creative communications strategist based in the Gulf, where she has lived for more than a decade covering the travel, culture, and heritage of the GCC. She is a contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveller Middle East, for which she wrote the magazine’s Doha travel guide, and her work has appeared in Time, Monocle, Wallpaper*, Departures, Afar, The Times, Centurion, Sleeper, Hadara, British Airways High Life, Four Seasons Magazine, and the U.K. and U.S. editions of Condé Nast Traveller. Before settling in the region, she was an international journalist, her work taking her through the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand, a succession of homes that taught her to read a city from the inside rather than from above.