If a Color Could Capture an Era, 'Eau de Nil' Would be "Pure 1930s" — Meet the Soft Egypt-Inspired Shade You Need to Know

Green bathroom with travertine built-in bath with vase of flowers, and gold taps. there's gold towel rails on a wall of green tiles, and a bench seat below with a patterned seat.

“When I see Eau de Nil,” writes Jonathan Adler in the introduction to his 2013 book, Life in Color, “I am transported to the lobby of Claridge’s Hotel in London with its signature Eau de Nil china, its melancholy glamour, its stirring portrait of Winston Churchill framed with an Eau de Nil border...”

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Egypt occupied a particular, storied place in the imaginations of the European bon vivants and the well-travelled gentry. From that emerged a new green color trend, a watery pale hue known as Eau de Nil, meaning ‘water of the Nile’ in French.