Revival, Replica, and Reuse: Fashioning ‘Arabesque’ Furniture in Khedival Cairo

While the subject of Mamluk Revival in architecture has received scholarly attention in the last decades, its counterpart in interior design remains woefully neglected. This article is an attempt to reconstruct the rise, fall, and recent reappraisal of Mamluk-style furniture in Khedival Cairo, based on a scattered corpus of evidence, be that visual, material, or textual.