Ancient Egyptian Furniture as a Contemporary Design Methodology | ||||
| Journal of Design Sciences and Applied Arts | ||||
| Article 22, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2024, Page 294-304 PDF (1.38 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jdsaa.2023.222222.1346 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Heba Mohammed 
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| Design and Creative Arts Faculty, Ahram Canadian University, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Furniture is a human necessity through the evolution of eras, because it achieves the functional and aesthetic requirements of human, and acquired a special philosophical and intellectual trend among the ancient Egyptians as it created a unique combination of the requirements of life and the afterlife , which influenced by their religious beliefs and agreed with the surrounding environment and its available and suitable resources for each various patterns of Furniture , so they excelled in Furniture design , its implementation and gave it many values such as (symbolic, functional, environmental, aesthetic and technical) these made it a source and a unique design methodology for Egyptian and foreign designers 's creativity through different eras , so this research confirmed that Through the attempts of many Egyptian and Danish designers who produced creative designs, thus confirming that the ancient Egyptian furniture isn't historical furniture only but exceeded being a design methodology which helps successive generations to inspire many diverse innovative designs by using its many values and that are far from shape- based inspiration only that It became popular over the past years. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Egyptian Furniture; Methodology; Design Thought | ||||
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