Mercedes Volait, Maisons de France au Caire. Le remploi de grands décors mamelouks et ottomans dans une architecture moderne = Buyūt Faransā fi l-Qāhira. Al-Athār al-mamlūkiyya wa-l-ʿuthmāniyya fi l-ʿimāra al-ḥadītha (bilingual publication in French and Arabic). Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéol... (original) (raw)

ABE Journal. Architecture beyond Europe, 2013

Abstract

When the French embassy in Egypt moved from the old premises in Downtown Cairo to the present premises across the Nile in Giza in 1938, the furniture lorries were not only loaded with the usual goods for relocation. Polychrome marble floors and dados, painted and gilded wooden ceilings, stained glass windows, doors with ivory inlay or bronze plating, panels with Arabic inscriptions, polychrome Turkish tiles, marble fountains–basically the entire architectural decoration of the old premises wa...

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