HERITAGE AND ITS IMPACT ON CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR DESIGN APPLICATIONS

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Décor Department, Faculty of Arts and Design, Pharos University, Egypt

Abstract

There are many aesthetic and creative values in our heritage, Egypt is the cradle of civilizations and the Egyptian people as long
as the whole world is concerned with the basic elements of civilization and the Egyptian identity has been influenced by other
civilizations, but it always returns to its Egypt, so the Egyptian designer must adhere to his identity and work to confirm it in most
of his designs, so he must It creates other goals for the design related to cultural communication and the transfer of ideas and
meanings, as the designer works to formulate semantic symbols extracted from the cultural and civilizational heritage and
components of the environment and intellectual trends, so the design fits into the user's thought and culture, so our popular heritage
is the true image of what the ancestors created and where their feelings were mixed with nature Surrounding them as if they were
part of it, so their heritage fulfilled all their needs, so they lived their lives in harmony with their environment.

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