Oriental Style in Your Apartment

Oriental style has always been rich and luxurious.

An essential element of the interior were the windows, closed bars carved out of thin plaster or wood. Barred windows created in the premises of a subtle lighting effect. Sami window openings, single or double, in most cases overlapped arcs in and settled mainly in the upper part of the walls. For processing we used the motif of the walls of a flat arch. The surfaces of the walls in the lower part, solved by the panel, covered with fine ornamentation.

The ornament, which was used by the Arabs, and is usually referred to as arabesques, consisted of a complex interwoven into a grid of decorative motifs, geometric and stylized nature of the plant with the addition of labels, canonized different handwritings. Images of people banned Muslim religion.

In Islamic architecture and decorative materials are used as follows: tap, alabaster, carved wood, decorative brick, marble, hewn stone, glazed tiles, faience, glass mosaic, marble mosaic, painting, papier-mache, chain-inlay wood and ivory.

Greater reach the perfection of carved wood products. In the processing of valuable species were introduced, used dialup tree. Inlaid with not only the pieces of wood, but ivory.

Furniture was scarce. The main decorations were in a residential area deep sofas, wooden sofas, ottomans, carpet, fabrics and soft pillows, low tables and coffee tables, and sometimes had in terms of polygon shape - hexagon, octagon. Wooden legs, back, arm rests were treated with different geometry, typical for the Arabs of ornamental motifs, among which the most prominent place occupied flat lancet arch. Among other types of furniture were chests, bookcases, screens. The role of the cabinet served niches with doors.

In high quality furniture inlay applied, in particular, with the introduction of ivory, pearl, ornamented with bright color parts.

B decoration of buildings played an important role with fine carpets slozhnospletennym ornament.

Considerable importance in the decoration of houses had vessels - various forms of jugs, bowls and other items made of metal with embossed or from ceramic, porcelain with paintings.