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Stone relief with arabesques of tendrils, palmettes and half-palmettes in the Umayyad Mosque at Damascus. The Islamic arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, [13] often combined with other elements.
The French sense of arabesque: a Savonnerie carpet in the Louis XIV style, c.1685–1697, wool, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Design of a Louis XVI style arabesque, by Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, c.1780–1793, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and colored wash, Metropolitan Museum of Art The "Arabesque Room" in the Catherine ...
Grand Neoclassical interior by Robert Adam, Syon House, London Details for Derby House in Grosvenor Square, an example of the Adam brothers' decorative designs. The Adam style (also called Adamesque or the Style of the Brothers Adam) is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by Scottish architect William Adam and his sons, of whom Robert (1728 ...
Tiles with some calligraphy in the courtyard of the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul Calligraphic design is omnipresent in Islamic art, where, as in Europe in the Middle Ages , religious exhortations, including Qur'anic verses, may be included in secular objects, especially coins, tiles and metalwork, and most painted miniatures include some ...
[1]: 231 Jonathan Bloom cites the glazed tiles on the minaret of the Kutubiyya Mosque, dating from the mid-12th century, as the earliest reliably-dated example of zellij in Morocco. [14]: 26 The individual tile pieces are large, allowing the pattern to be visible from afar. Each piece was pierced with a small hole prior to being baked so that ...
Girih tiles are a set of five tiles that were used in the creation of Islamic geometric patterns using strapwork for decoration of buildings in Islamic architecture. They have been used since about the year 1200 and their arrangements found significant improvement starting with the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan in Iran built in 1453.
The first building to have tiles with red was the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul which was designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan and completed in 1557. [76] The tile decoration inside the mosque is restricted to around the mihrab on the qibla wall. The repeating rectangular tiles have a stencil-like floral pattern on a white ground.
Modern open fireplace An outdoor fireplace. A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for heating a room. Modern fireplaces vary in heat efficiency, depending on the design.