Anciet Egypt Influencing Art Deco

Art Deco was a 'Modernization' it was a mash up of different periods from the past, we can see direct influences from Far and Middle Eastern design, Greek and Roman themes Egyptian.

In 1925 a Exhibition in Paris France was held focusing on Art Deco movement, After the discovery of Tutankhamun's tome in November of 1922 ignited a fascination later known as Eqyptomania , quickly spread around the world, as from then the artists were all inspired from this new material and designed Architecture, jewelry and furniture all with icons or patterns from ancient Egypt.

Example furniture designer Pierre Legrain was inspired to make a chair alike the thrones found in Egypt 


Pierre Legrain 
Rosewood H. 12 in. (30.5 cm), W. 29 in. (73.7 cm), D. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)

Jewellery designers used icons and similar colours used in Egypt but mostly influenced were the cinemas with there pyramid like shapes, elaborate colours, and Ziggurat which was found on the designs of all façades of buildings  Staggered tier/zigzig/pyramid shape) as a classic Art Deco motif.





From this art Deco design of a Façade of a sky scraper building we can see the direct influence from ancient Egyptian the over all shape reminds me of the Egypt vulture 'Nekhbet' and the repetitive ridged lines that we would see in both Egyptian jewellery and buildings  


Djoser Pyramid -Sakkara, Egypt      Art Deco Courthouse-Bolder County, CO

We can see direct influences from the Pyramid on the left to the courthouse on the right
we see the same form in shape and line and the stacking element.




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Ancient Egyptian pottery

 

Pottery was produced ancient Egyptians from the very early period. This pottery was of great importance for the archaeologists to understand vary archaic periods, the study of this pottery became much more valid and understood in the recent year it has clarified things throughout the ears of Egyptian history mostly the predynastic periods. They would collect shards of parts of pottery and put it under a machine called a radiocarbon which would give the exact whereabouts of the pottery production. The Egyptians used the pottery as containers as we use them in the modern day. 

From the studies they are managed to undercover more and more questions on regional development and trade line predynastic sites in palestinian region have yielded pottery made of mud from Nile. Modern archaeological sciences have new tools to analyze the content of the pottery giving us insight to the use of various pottery items 

Pottery from predynastic Egypt was often high quality. Pottery from Badarian was created with use of the wheel and apparently it was the woman who turned out the pottery. 

These amazing pottery pieces were burnished to a lustrous finish and after firing they were left with a black upper color and a red lower section, it is assumed that they would fire there pots in either  a primitive kiln or just a plain open fire 'fire pit' . Free hand painting was used on the pottery from the Naqada period (4000-3000 BC) until the dynastic period depicting figures of animals, boats, patterns and humans. 

In the Old Kingdom we start to see the use of the wheel it started just as a turn table but later on changed into the proper wheel still being turned manually, this step up in technology required better preparation of clay to handle more control over whilst firing. Although they had the wheel they would still use their previous techniques for certain items example, bread moulds continued to be handmade around a core called a patrix. 

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Egyptian make-up

When we think of Egyptian make up we think of eye make-up thou they also would wear lip-gloss and nail polish according to style, fashion, personal taste and occasion, the ancient Egyptians would draw an outline around the eyes with a pigment as tradition they would create a almond or feline shape, doing this was an important practice, even though cosmetics are used as a form of beautification the Egyptians uses eye make up for more than painting a beautiful face, they took real holistic approach to the concept of make-up it wasn't only a decorative art but they practiced  make-up for medicinal, magical and spiritual reasons.
The Egyptians had 2 form of eye make-up Udju and Mesdemet 

Udju made from malachite a (green stone of copper) from Sinai where it was mined the land is considered as spiritual grounds of Hathor an ancient goddess of beauty, joy, love and women. given the title of 'Lady of malachite''
 

Mesdemet a pigment of dark gray ore of lead, which was either found in stibnite (antimony sulphide) or more common Galena (lead sulphide) which was founded in Aswan and along the Red Sea Coast. This material was brought back by Pharaoh Hatshepsut's famous form expeditions to Punt it was given as a tribute by Asiatic nomads. 
 

Packaging was prepared much different from what we see today, today we have a wide variety of choice from liquid, power or cake eye make-up.
Nowadays all we have to do is Buy our products and apply but in Ancient Egypt the preparations of applying make-up had a longer process, the cosmetic material and to be crushed into powered form placed onto a palette and to that add a animal fat substance which would stick the material to the eye, eye make-up paraphernalia include palettes, grinders and applicators witch all have been founded in the earliest burial grounds and seems to have been essential possessions for the afterlife.

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Contemporary Fashion Influenced by Ancient Egypt

Annie Leibniz in vanity fair magazine 

In this photograph we see major Egyptian fashion influence the gold cups worn on the breasts the linen sheer warp skirt and the 'Jesus' sandals together with the embellishment of lavish jewellery.



by  Christian Dior

In this garment we see light material a two shoulder strap dress and the Egyptian inspired details on the chest 


by Christian Dior

In this garment we see a smock that from my research have found that they in fact wore this length dress together with a belt witch was worn more by men then women and the gladiator heels witch I do see an influence from Egyptian sandals, paired with the accessories influenced by Egyptian jewellery 


by Eliesaab

In this garment we see a one shoulder ensemble that from my research found that they did wear so it seems light in fabric. 


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Ancient Egyptian Clothing

The clothing the Egyptians would wear was made from very light linen which was bleached and starched. The wealthy women would wear the finest linen almost transparent it was so sheer. 

The style of cut would depend on the fashion of area and time, they could wear full length straight dresses with one or two shoulder straps or other dresses would barely reach higher than the waist alike a smock.

The décolletage, and shoulder area would be bare and covered in lavish jewellery in forms of large collars known as usekh witch would slightly cover the shoulders and chest, another piece call a pectoral was worn on the chest, they also on occasion would cover their breasts with gold cups. 

  

Men would also embellish their wardrobe with jewellery,they would also wear headdresses for special occasions, the man's attire would be a wrap around skirt tied around the waist secured with a belt, sometime the material would be warped around the legs also, The length of the linen would vary depending on the fashion of the time. 

The richer men would wear the sheer linen alike the women .

As for the children they would not wear clothing till the age of 6 then they would wear the same attire as the men and women. 

 

The Egyptians would commonly go bare foot but would sandals on special occasion or on occasions were they feet were likely to get hurt.

Sandals of the poor were made from woven papyrus or palm whilst the rich would wear sandals made from leather 

   

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Contemporary Jewellery Influenced by Ancient Egypt

Jewellery By Azza Fahmy Jeweller 

This designer produced a series of jewellery inspired from Ancient Egypt
we see direct influences and some pieces with the designers spin on Ancient Egypt jewellery



Winged Scarab Necklace in 18ct Gold and Filigree holding a faceted Amethyst gem 


In this piece we see the betel that from my research I have found that it is a symbol of protection, The designer used semi-precious stoned as the Egyptians did, but the designer used sliver for the majority of this piece and from my research we have found that for the Egyptians it was much rarer to have there jewellery in sliver then in gold.




Vulture Nekhbet Masterpiece

In this piece we see intricate details/ repetitive patterns , we see a icon of the Egyptian vulture. 




 Winged Scarab Ring

Once again the designer uses the scarab betel symbol of protection and a warn of evil, a mix of gold and sliver material. 

Pharaonic Cuff Masterpiece

In this piece we see alot of Egypiation incons like the betel and the eye and the use of precious stone turquoise. 

What i have realized from this designer design is that see always uses gold for the icon of the betel. 




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Ancient Egyptian jewellery

In Ancient Egyptian jewellery the most commonly used material was gold as it was easily available from Nubia, Sliver was also used but was much more rare as it would have been imported for far away lands. 

Their religion was worshipping the of gods and goddesses with were envisioned  as a mixture of man and beast .

The jewellery was purely made for body adornment.

For dead or alive the jewellery whom would be wearing it portrayed a symbol of protection and prosperity. Many items of jewellery were amulets with were designed to warn off evil from both natural and the supernatural, these amulets were designed in the image of gods,magical signs, hieroglyphs and animals 

There were extra special amulets called Scarabs or Scarabs Beetle simbol of good luck and was believed to hold strong magical and religious powerd the owners name would be engraved at the bottom of this scarab to ensure the full effect of its 

protective power.

The depiction of a scarab beetle used in all kinds of pendants, bracelets, rings and necklaces. Scarab amulets are often made from precious  semi-precious jewels  like carnelian, lapis, lazuli and turquoise. 

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lrg Egyptian bedead Queen Cleopatra Necklace 5 by thenile. 2013. lrg Egyptian bedead Queen Cleopatra Necklace 5 by thenile. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.etsy.com/listing/108176587/lrg-egyptian-bedead-queen-cleopatra. [Accessed 17 May 2013].