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Interior & Furniture Design in Egypt: Presentation By: Jaikeshav Mishra
Interior & Furniture Design in Egypt: Presentation By: Jaikeshav Mishra
Interior & Furniture Design in Egypt: Presentation By: Jaikeshav Mishra
DESIGN IN EGYPT
PRESENTATION BY:
JAIKESHAV MISHRA
Background Picture: Tomb of Ramesses VI, Valley of the Kings, Egypt
EGYPT ON WORLD MAP:
ANCIENT EGYPT:
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River. Ancient
Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology).
Egypt reached the pinnacle of its power in the New Kingdom, ruling much of Nubia and a sizable portion of the Near
East, after which it entered a period of slow decline. During the course of its history Egypt was invaded or conquered by a
number of foreign powers, including the Hyksos, the Libyans, the Nubians, the Assyrians, the Achaemenid Persians, and
the Macedonians under the command of Alexander the Great. The Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom, formed in the aftermath of
Alexander's death, ruled Egypt until 30 BC, when, under Cleopatra, it fell to the Roman Empire and became a Roman
province.The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile
River valley for agriculture.
The ancient Egyptians were amongst the first truly complex settled civilizations in the world. This meant that they were
amongst the first to make a lot of things…like furniture. The Egyptians built permanent homes and found new ways to fill
their lives with both useful and decorative items.
Most furniture was made of decomposable materials, like wood or reeds, but much has survived thanks to the extremely
dry climate. Since the Egyptians believed the dead needed items for their daily lives, furniture was included in tombs,
preserved by the same conditions that helped mummify their dead.
EGYPT
1.INTERIOR DESIGN
1A.EGYPTIAN TEMPLES
1B.EGYPTIAN TOMBS
1C.EGYPTIAN HOUSES
2.FURNITURE DESIGN
INTERIOR DESIGN IN EGYPTIAN TEMPLES:
The ancient Egyptians believed that temples were the homes of the gods and goddesses. Every temple was dedicated to a
god or goddess and he or she was worshipped there by the temple priests and the pharaoh. Due to the scarcity of
wood, the two predominant building materials used in ancient Egypt were sun-baked mud brick and stone, mainly
limestone, but also sandstone and granite in considerable quantities. The largest temple buildings were made of stone so
that they would last forever.
Massive Stone walls with interior colonnade at the Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt.
INTERIOR DESIGN IN EGYPTIAN TEMPLES:
Exterior and interior walls, as well as the columns and piers, were covered with hieroglyphic and pictorial frescoes and
carvings painted in brilliant colors. Many motifs of Egyptian ornamentation are symbolic, such as the scarab, or sacred
beetle, the solar disk, and the vulture. Other common motifs include palm leaves, the papyrus plant, and the buds and
flowers of the lotus. Hieroglyphs were inscribed for decorative purposes as well as to record historic events or spells. In
addition, these pictorial frescoes and carvings allow us to understand how the Ancient Egyptians lived, statuses, wars that
were fought and their beliefs.
The craftsman's residence, a
one-story structure of 75 square
meters, was organized on a
longitudinal axis wherein each
room opened directly from the
preceding space. The bedroom
was flanked by one small
corridor leading from the central
hall to the. Beginning with the
reception room, which was
below street level, each
rectangular space was ascended
by one or two steps; therefore,
the rooms with the lowest
ceilings were the bedroom and
kitchen. Based on an analysis of
ruins, as well as other
documentary evidence, it has
been concluded that changes in
both floor and ceiling levels were
typical. The ceiling of the central
hall rose above adjacent rooms.
In this plan, starting with the
reception room, each room is
raised by one or two steps
INTERIOR DESIGN IN EGYPTIAN HOUSES:
INTERIOR DESIGN IN EGYPTIAN HOUSES:
Rooms of small dwellings had more functional demands than larger residences and typically were more economical in
terms of space and materials. While the craftsman's residence may be representative of spatial arrangements for this
type of house, the activities which took place in each space would have varied from house to house. The reception room
sometimes housed animals, served as a work room for craft activities, or functioned as a food preparation area. This
room also at times contained a platform used as an altar to the god Bes. In the adjacent central or main hall, primary
living activities of the household took place. This main hall was usually the loftiest space in a dwelling and, depending on
its size, had one or more columns.
INTERIOR DESIGN IN EGYPTIAN HOUSES:
A built-in dais was often used as a divan on which mats or rugs were placed. The part religion played in the lives of
Egyptians in this period is attested to by the fact that, here too, a stela served as a commemorative shrine in the false
door. The kitchen at the rear of the house was provided with an oven and other food preparation equipment. Leading
from here were stairways giving access to a cellar for storage and to the roof for outdoor activities or for storage; in some
small residences the stairway originated in the reception room.
FURNITURE DESIGN IN EGYPT
FURNITURE DESIGN IN EGYPT:
The ancient Egyptians had sophisticated furniture for their time period; tomb paintings show Egyptians using chairs,
tables, couches, chests, stools, and beds. In fact, some well-preserved pieces of ancient Egyptian furniture have been
recovered from tombs of Egyptian queens, Pharaohs, and other wealthy ancient Egyptians, and can be seen today in
museums. There was a big difference between the furniture of peasants and the wealthy and it is largely due to the
burial rituals of the wealthy that pieces of furniture from ancient Egypt have been preserved and can be seen today.
Furniture By Class
Chair of King Tutankhamun with legs depicting animal leg . The chair is made in Pure Gold embedded
with precious stones.
FURNITURE DESIGN IN EGYPT: