Byzantine Style Living

Byzantine interior design

Byzantine interiors often consisted of impost blocks on columns, separation of
church interiors into the church and nave. tiled marble flooring, geometry, and a
play on natural lighting. The end of the Byzantine Empire came about in 1453
transitioning into the Ottoman Empire.

Byzantine furniture
Materials used for furniture normally was wood, metal, and ivory (hinting back to the
trading of ivory), jewels, gold and silver. ... Seating often came in the form of a throne
or chair which appealed greatly to the architecture of the building it was in.

Byzantine chair

An East Roman Empire furniture style based in Constantinople from the fifth to fiftee
nth centuries. It inherited and elaborated early Christian and Hellenistic forms, blendi
ng them with Persian, Islamic, and even Chinese influences. It featured elaborate tur
nings, metal Xframe chairs, foot stools, lecterns,
 round or semicircular dining tables, canopy beds, open and closed cupboards, sepa
rate bookcases
 in the late period, and elaborately decorated chests.
byzantine style centre table

byzantine flooring
A BYZANTINE MOSAIC FLOOR
CIRCA 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
The large multicolored composition on a cream ground, composed of a roundel, centered by
an eagle standing with its wings spread, encircled by chain surrounded by a wide band of
scrolling, each element with a decorative motif at the center, with birds alternating with
fruit, including poppies and pomegranates, birds in the four corners, bordered by a square
of elaborate guilloche chain, bands of stepped diamonds along the left and right

BYZANTINE MOSAIC FLOOR

Byzantine lamp &chandelier

Wall art
Window style

Arch window

Roof

Mosaic Roof
WALL

The palette incorporates various shades of gold, red, green, and blue
PLAN