Icoc-orientalrugs.org
Title
Welcome to ICOC: The International Conference on Oriental Carpets
Description
A History of The ICOC
In 1976 the first international conference on Oriental carpets (during London's Festival of Islam) was expected to attract around a hundred participants. Robert Pinner, the late founder of ICOC wrote: " ...it was decided to form a small committee, book a university lecture room to hold that number, send out invitations to some twenty or so lecturers and advertise the dates to potential participants. Six months later, having twice changed the venue, the conference opened with five hundred people overfilling the Jeannette Cochran Theatre, and emergency half-day bus tours arranged in the hope of tempting enough people away from the theatre to avoid breaking its fire regulations."
Subsequent conferences have been held in: Munich (1978), Washington DC (1980), London (1983), Vienna & Budapest (1986), San Francisco (1990), Hamburg & Berlin (1993), Philadelphia (1996), Milan (1999) and Washington DC again (2003). ICOC has also sponsored regional conferences in Baku, Istanbul, Leningrad, Marrakech and Tehran, each accompanied by memorable exhibitions.
The Eleventh International Conference will be held in Istanbul April 19 - 22, 2007, about which more information can be obtained here >>>.
Contact
-
- Olville VA
- United States 23129
-
- +1.8048284485
Additional Information
Related Domains
