“The escalator is themed as a “stairway to heaven” which has Nut decorations upon its underside, with the goddess Hathor’s disk crown acting as ambient lighting in a moodily lit hall. The goddess’ body conjoins with its mirror image along the entire length of the escalator at the winged limbs. The handrail is painted green, to evoke imagery of the flowing of both an earthly and heavenly Nile.”

—Chris Elliott, Kathrine Griffis-Greenberg and Richard Lunn, describing the Egyptian Hall and Escalator of the retail store Harrods in London, designed in 1995. From the essay Egypt in London—Entertainment and Commerce in the 20th Century Metropolis. As published in Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing Architecture, edited by Jean-Marcel Humbert and Clifford Price, 2003.