Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka (FDASL)
An AISLS-sponsored documentary project that displays an inventory of furniture and other decorative arts that were created in Sri Lanka and are currently found in Sri Lanka’s cultural institutions, especially the National Museum, and in private collections. Most are from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The documentation includes approximately 1,000 images of 400 unique items, an annotated bibliography and essays on the types of wood used for furniture in Sri Lanka. This collection was photographed by the project’s principal researcher, Ayesha Abdur-Rahman.
