{"product_id":"paperblanks-shah-mini-hardback-journal-plain-176-pages-pb6395-7","title":"Paperblanks Shah Mini Hardback Journal – Plain, 176 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Shah mini hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 176 plain pages of 85 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia’s Taj Mahal is one of the world’s greatest monuments to love. Our Shah cover is named for the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who commissioned the grand mausoleum to house the tomb of his most favoured wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It reproduces a photograph by Gérard Degeorge of one of the Taj Mahal’s iconic marble flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the ivory-white marbled walls of India’s emblematic monument lie these beautifully carved floral designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographed by Gérard Degeorge, these unique marble carvings capture the breathtaking construction and exquisiteness of one of the world’s greatest structures, the Taj Mahal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntriguing in its unique nature, the Taj Mahal is adorned both inside and out with these marbled flowers. Special in their specific colours and form, the decorations are incrustations of precious or semiprecious stones according to the technique known as “pietra dura,” a Florentine practice consisting of inlaid stones in a stone background. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Islamic culture, flowers are often seen as symbols of Paradise; the Kingdom of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To carve into marble is to commit to perfection. Any mistake meant the whole stone slab had to be discarded. In reproducing one of Gérard Degeorge’s photographs of the famous monument, this cover celebrates these precious marble masterpieces. 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