Arabesque

... on the ground floor. The guests eye each other silently. The walls of the long open room, which is tiled waist high with bright, arabesque tiles and carried by plastered pillars, offers low seats from corner to corner. We sit back and sip the tea, ataí. ...

... on since that discovery, nor have I bothered much with the light. Well, for thirty-four dollars per night, the Hotel Arabesque was just right. Optimistic, ambitious, and out of touch with reality, I set an agenda--Medieval Cairo, the Citadel of ...

... when I got inside, then only I appreciated its interior beauty. The ceiling is formed in The interior of Solakhamba Masjid Arabesque style. It is aesthetically charming and truly Islamic. You can see a small water pool which might serve as recreation in ...

... ;m sure I heard one say “It went much better at rehearsal this afternoon Daphne!”  All right I’m exaggerating, the arabesque was rubbish, but everything else was just as I saw it.  Honest. Mrs C is now sure I need ...

... The design is the arabesque design (you can see it in my picture). Here is another quote from wikipedia: "The arabesque is an artistic motif that is characterized by the application of repeating geometric forms and fancifully combined patterns; these ...

... the 451.9m tall, 88 storey twin towers. Rather than just a ridiculously tall record-setter, the towers have been built to an arabesque design featuring 5 tiers to represent the 5 pillars of Islam and 63m masts in the style of mosque minarets. But far more ...

... nasal wale of a suffocating reed fighting against a counter-swirl of tiny cymbals. I ordered a second glass of tea, smiled at the arabesque of sights and sounds spinning around me and let the heat of the glass warm my hands and breathed in the minty ...

... top of my "the coolest places ever" list is ever changing! Afterwards, we saw a little onyx demonstration, similar to the arabesque demonstration in Egypt.  Tania and Laura went jewelry shopping while I sat with 3 guys from Spain by the exit ...

... in the decorations of some of the rooms and chapels of the convent, as is common throughout all of Spain. The inctricate arabesque designs, some colored, others faded, hinted the vaults of the inner part of the cloister, which was incidentally, the oldest ...

... starts to make its way inland towards Ica & Nasca and the desert continues, with many areas, oasis, tumbledown shacks looking very Arabesque in style. Then slowly as we start to trek south-east the Andes start to come into vision rising up out on the ...

... to the grandeur of the officially receiving room of the Palacio Real.  Walls of velvet, frescoed ceilings by Tiepolo, ornate arabesque carpets and marbled floors, and baroque and neo-classical influences make it a feast for the eyes.  Once ...

Today was noteworthy in that I saw the first evidence of Indo-Islam architecture.  Note the arabesque lines.  If I recall correctly, we were dealing with the 16th century.  So there continued to be interchange and acculturization, ...

... Red Fort, where tron the window  he could see his unique work. As you approach the building are seen  arabesque  filifree  inlaid with semiprecious stones, and you realize the hard work accomplished in the marble, not like our ...