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Egypt Sherrod is an American radio and television personality, as well as real estate broker and designer. She is best known as host of HGTV 's Flipping Virgins and its long running show, Property Virgins. She is CEO & Managing Broker of the Atlanta-based residential brokerage Indigo Road Realty, and is also principal designer at Indigo Road ...
The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. [27] The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest of the Giza pyramids and the largest pyramid in the world, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. [28]
A term coined by historians and peers for architects in Egypt that were very influential in the shaping of the profession, especially initiating a home-grown blend of Egyptian Modernist architecture, roughly during the second quarter of the 20th Century. [1] Ali Labib Gabr (1898–1966) Mahmoud Riad (1905–1977) Mohamed Kamal Ismail (1908–2008)
Karim Rashid (born 1960) is an Egyptian-born and Canadian-raised industrial designer. His designs encompass a wide range of products, including luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, brand identity, and packaging. According to Time magazine, Rashid is hailed as the "most famous industrial designer in all the Americas" and the ...
Shahira Fahmy (born 1974) is an Egyptian architect. [1] [2] She is the founder and principal of Shahira Fahmy Architects (SFA), established in 2005 in Cairo, Egypt.Fahmy won the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 2015, [3] [4] [5] and is a recipient of the Berkman fellowship of Berkman Center for Internet & Society for 2016 [3] [6] at Harvard Law School.
Azza Fahmy. Azza Fahmy is an Egyptian jewellery designer, and the founder of the design house Azza Fahmy Jewellery. [1] Fahmy was the first woman to train in Egypt's jewellery quarter, Khan El Khalili. [2] In 2013 Fahmy founded ‘The Design Studio by Azza Fahmy’, in partnership with Alchimia, Contemporary Design School in Florence. [3][4]
e. Mamluk architecture was the architectural style that developed under the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), which ruled over Egypt, the Levant, and the Hijaz from their capital, Cairo. Despite their often tumultuous internal politics, the Mamluk sultans were prolific patrons of architecture and contributed enormously to the fabric of historic ...
Egyptian revival decorative arts is a style in Western art, mainly of the early nineteenth century, in which Egyptian motifs were applied to a wide variety of decorative arts objects. Enthusiasm for the artistic style of Ancient Egypt is generally attributed to the excitement over Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and, in Britain, to Admiral Nelson ...