Egyptian style in interior design

One of the first highly developed cultures of the world - Egyptian - allows us to speak for the first time about some developed style. Egyptian style is also the progenitor of almost all subsequent European ones.
The interior of the houses is rich and colorful. Luxurious columns underpin the ceiling. Artistic images, despite the sacred attitude towards them, are highly stylized and symbolic.

The walls are neutral tones: light yellow, warm hue, beige. The walls of the halls of the palace buildings were covered with paintings, painted reliefs, as well as with glazed tiles. Picturesque images were placed on the ceilings, and in some cases - on the floors. The content of the paintings, in addition to the genre of domestic scenes, were plant motifs - lotus, papyrus, palm trees, vines, branches of fruit trees, as well as images of birds, fish and animals.

Smoothed corners, arches, niches - this is also the Egyptian style. A mat on the floor of reeds, a figurine of a cat and a bust of Nefertiti ... Calm symmetry and strict geometrical.

In furniture, as in architecture, geometric geometrical outlines prevailed, but soft, smooth, mainly in the corner parts, lines also were often used. Egyptians paid great attention to the functional side of furniture; as a rule, it corresponded to the proportions of the human body. The backs and armrests of the seats were carved. The legs of chairs, chairs, - tables, chest of drawers often ended in images of paws and hooves of animals, as well as duck heads.

Decorated furniture through a combination of different types of wood. Such means as inlay, mosaic are widely spread; also used colored enamel, ivory plate, bone and metal, mother of pearl, gilding.

Palaces and rich houses were furnished with tables, armchairs, sofas, and stools. Known samples are usually very high beds, stretchers with canopies. The houses contained a large number of boxes, caskets for valuables, jewelry, fabrics. Forms of furniture and its decoration differed variety in the presence of a very simple design.

Much attention was paid to the ornament, the themes were images of animals, as well as floral and geometric motifs.

Textiles - monochromatic light colors (preferably white or cream), a strict geometric pattern (stripes, zigzags across the surface). Zest - jewelry in the form of the head of a sphinx, scarab beetle, hawk with outspread wings.

Large lamps and stalks of papyrus and reed in floor ceramic vases completed the look.