Interior decoration is the art of decorating a room so it looks good, is easy to use, and functions well with the existing architecture. The goal of interior decoration is to provide a certain "feel" for the room; it encompasses applying wallpaper, painting walls and other surfaces, choosing furniture and fittings, such as light fixtures, and providing other decorations for the area such as paintings and sculptures. Interior decorating is done professionall ...

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Taj Mahal - Exterior decoration. Nearly every surface of the entire complex has been decorated. The exterior decorations of the Taj are among the finest to be found in Mughal architecture of any period. Once again, decoration motifs are repeated throughout the complex. As the surface area changes -- a large pishtaq has more area than a smaller -- the decorations are refined proportionally. The decorative elements come in basically three categories: Calligraphy Abstract geometric elements Vegatati ...

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Decoration may imply: the craft of a painter and decorator an object or act intended to increase beauty of a person, room, etc.; Interior decoration, the internal finishing of a building Something that is an honor to get: see List of prizes, medals, and awards. Other related archivesInterior decoration, List of prizes, medals, and awards, beauty, painter and decorator

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A painter is a person who applies paint to a surface. As a trade painters apply paint to woodwork, walls, etc. See: Painter and decorator and Interior decoration. In the arts, painters create paintings—two-dimensional artworks—by applying paint to a flat surface. See also. Painting List of painters History of art Oil on canvas Painting and Decorating Categories: Painters | ...

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Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration or of cultural significance as in a cathedral. Small tiles or fragments of pottery (known as tesserae, diminutive tessellae) or of colored glass or clear glass backed with metal foils, are used to create a pattern or picture. Mosaic - Use. Mosaic was used across the ancient world for domestic interior decoration. Mosaics of the 4 ...

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The Royal Château of Fontainebleau (in the Seine-et-Marne département), the largest of the French royal châteaux, introduced to France the Italian Mannerist style in interior decoration and in gardens, and transformed them in the translation. The French Mannerist style of interior decoration of the 16th century is known as the "Fontainebleau style:" it combined sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork, and outdoors the patterned garden parterre. The Fontainebleau style combined allegorical paintings in moulded pla ...

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Wallpaper is material which is used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. Wallpapers are usually sold in rolls and are put onto a wall using wallpaper paste. Wallpapers can come either plain so it can be painted or with patterned graphics. Mathematically speaking, there are seventeen basic patterns, described as wallpaper groups, that can be used to tile an infinite plane. All manufactur ...

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A Christmas village is a decorative miniature-scale village often set up at Christmas. Much of the imagery these villages are designed after comes from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. These towns depict classic Victorian era scenes, and are often supplied with lights to illuminate their interiors. They are sometimes strung with their own micro-miniature Christmas lights, and have access ...

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A candlestick or candelabrum is a decorative holder for one or more candles, often shaped as a column or pedestal. Those who use them consider them a part of their home's interior design. A special kind of Jewish candelabrum is the menorah. In popular culture, candlesticks are featured in the nursery rhyme Jack Be Nimble; as the character 'Lumiere' in Disney's Beauty and the Beast; and in the game Clue. Many of Liberace's piano performances included a candelabrum on top of the grand piano. In the movie B ...

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A baseboard or skirting board is a wooden board, normally 75mm to 300mm deep, covering the lowest part of an interior wall. Its purpose is to cover the join between the wall surface (usually plaster) and the floor, and to protect the wall from kicks and abrasion. At its simplest, skirting board consists of a simple plank nailed, screwed or glued to the wall; however particularly in older houses it can be made up of a number of mouldings to provide an elaborate decorative feature. Even today, it is quite common to have a quar ...

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Unas (also Wenis, Oenas, Unis, or Ounas) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, the last king of the Fifth dynasty. He is said to have lived from 2375 BC to 2345 BC. He built a small pyramid at Saqqara, close to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the interior of which is decorated with religious texts known as the Pyramid Texts. These texts were used in the Sixth Dynasty royal tombs, but Unas' are the first known, and contain verses not included in the later versions. He probably had no sons, so the ...

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A Warehouse Store is a retail location with a limited variety of merchandise sold in bulk at a discount to customers. This type of store is also referred to as a "Big Box" or "Price-Impact" store because of the spartan, warehouse style of the interior and the low prices. These stores tend to feature black text on a yellow background in marketing and in decor. Many Warehouse Stores are operated by traditional grocery chains both as a way to attract lower income, value conscious consumers and to maximize their buying power in order to l ...

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A room is an enclosed space in a house or other building. A room may have any number of doors and windows regulating light, airflow and access to the room. Large rooms are often named halls, small ones closets. Hall may also refer to a long, narrow room which serves purely as an access to other rooms (for example a corridor, a passage, or a hallway). Rooms have specific names based on the purpose they were built for, or are being used for. A room for cooking food, for example, is called a kitchen. Planning of room structure, use and interior decoration ...

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The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999. Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1920s. This award was originally for Interior Decoration 1928 William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest Harry Oliver - Se ...

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Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, and hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods. Furniture can be a product of artistic design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. Domestic furniture works, in conjunction with furnishing ...

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Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481—6 January 1537) was an architect and painter, born in a small town near Siena and died at Rome. He derived much benefit from the years of apprenticeship beginning in 1520 under Bramante, Raphael, and Sangallo during the erection of St. Peter's. He was a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni in the Duomo of Siena. Baldassare Peruzzi - Design and Decoration of Villa Farnesina. Almost all art critics ascribe also to him the design of the orig ...

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Synagogue architecture - General styles. Though there are a few Talmudic restrictions on how synagogues could be built, namely that they had to have windows and that they had to be taller than other buildings in town, synagogue plans were generally unrestricted, and even these few rules were often disregarded (especially as Jews were often not allowed to build tall buildings). For much of history, the constraints of anti-semitism, the poverty of many Jews, and the laws of host countries on how and when synagogues ...

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Base The focus of the Taj is the white marble tomb. Like most Mughal tombs, the basic elements are Persian in origin: a building with arched entrances, topped by a large dome. In India, and most especially at the Taj, this simple idea reached its zenith. The tomb stands on a square plinth. The base structure is a large, multi-chambered structure. The main chamber houses the cenotaphs of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz (the actua ...

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Taj Mahal, Taj Mahal - Origin and inspiration, Taj Mahal - Influences on Taj Mahal design, Taj Mahal - Design elements, Taj Mahal - Features of the complex, Taj Mahal - The garden, Taj Mahal - Outlying buildings, Taj Mahal - The tomb, Taj Mahal - Decoration, Taj Mahal - Exterior decoration, Taj Mahal - Interior decoration, Taj Mahal - Construction, Taj Mahal - History, Taj Mahal - Legends and theories

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It is a myth that synagogues are based on the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem. There is no set blueprint for synagogues and the architectural shapes and interior designs of synagogues vary greatly. Other local religious buildings and national culture usually influence synagogue architecture. The myth may have arisen because synagogues have been referred to in the Rabbinical Literature as Little Temples and indeed their popularity originated with the destruction of the original Temple as an alternative to the central worship in Jerusalem. Accor ...

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