The Abyson Room is more than 100 years old, and it is one of the important and impressive places inside Prince Muhammad Ali Palace in Manial. It attracts your eye when you see it. It is a golden-coloured room that contains exquisitely designed collectibles of highly accurate design, but what is the story of that room? Was it owned by Prince Muhammad Ali? And what are those meticulously made collectibles? And where did the prince who is known for his love of acquiring every precious thing come from? Our report will answer these questions in the following lines.
Within a suite that is several meters away from Soria Al-Qasr, which includes the winter room and a Moroccan salon, lies this wonderful masterpiece, “The Abyssinian Room”, which is the “Ilhami Pasha” suite of Prince Muhammad Ali’s maternal grandfather, and it was called by that name because all its walls are covered with aubusson fabric manufactured in France.
The room consists of 2 salons decorated with gold and then meticulously manufactured, and 2 consoles of gilded wood, each with a mirror designed in the Baroque and Rococo styles, two of the French decorative arts.
The room also includes vases made of French Resver pottery, while the ceiling of the room includes the golden sun disk, which is not without most of the palace suites.
Prince Muhammad Ali Palace in Manial is one of the palaces of the royal era in Egypt with a special architectural character, starting from the construction of the palace in 1901. The palace is located in Cairo, on Manial Al-Rawda Island, with an area of 61,711 square meters, and the area of the buildings is only 5,000 meters.
The Abyson Room is more than 100 years old, and it is one of the important and impressive places inside Prince Muhammad Ali Palace in Manial. It attracts your eye when you see it. It is a golden-coloured room that contains exquisitely designed collectibles of highly accurate design, but what is the story of that room? Was it owned by Prince Muhammad Ali? And what are those meticulously made collectibles? And where did the prince who is known for his love of acquiring every precious thing come from? Our report will answer these questions in the following lines.
Within a suite that is several meters away from Soria Al-Qasr, which includes the winter room and a Moroccan salon, lies this wonderful masterpiece, “The Abyssinian Room”, which is the “Ilhami Pasha” suite of Prince Muhammad Ali’s maternal grandfather, and it was called by that name because all its walls are covered with aubusson fabric manufactured in France.
The room consists of 2 salons decorated with gold and then meticulously manufactured, and 2 consoles of gilded wood, each with a mirror designed in the Baroque and Rococo styles, two of the French decorative arts.
The room also includes vases made of French Resver pottery, while the ceiling of the room includes the golden sun disk, which is not without most of the palace suites.
Prince Muhammad Ali Palace in Manial is one of the palaces of the royal era in Egypt with a special architectural character, starting from the construction of the palace in 1901. The palace is located in Cairo, on Manial Al-Rawda Island, with an area of 61,711 square meters, and the area of the buildings is only 5,000 meters.