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...The interior’s distinctive finishes include reclaimed Douglas fir beams, inlaid marble flooring, granite countertops, wormy maple (or “rustic maple”) walls and hickory stairs....
...And at its base it is granite so [residents] are grounded in the rock of New York City.”...
...“The business was doing well so I wasn’t immediately looking,” says Browne, but he had ambitions to grow and becoming part of a bigger group would give his company more resources....
...American minimalist counterparts include Agnes Martin’s trembling grids, Donald Judd’s gold-hued stacks, Robert Ryman’s white paintings....
...Designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1910, the original Penn Station was a Beaux Arts palace of pink granite and marble....
...The fact of having built, whether in marble or steel, is a victory for the builder. “The people that developed that ended up with the last laugh,” Mike says....
...She quotes Buckminster Fuller, the American architect and philosopher who said pollution was nothing but unharvested resources: “We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value,” he...
...The second you enter the Paris hotel, you step on a marble and granite eight-pointed star design — inspired, I learnt, by the one in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio. Bulgari takes heritage seriously....
...Jackets are off, shoulders are bare, pavement café tables affect a continental atmosphere while American tourists congratulate themselves on their good fortune: “Can you believe it?”...
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...To be clear, the Digital Benin project is a resource. It isn’t a platform for restitution....
...marble to imply cultural pedigree....
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...The Roman dealer Alessandra di Castro, for example, who focuses on Italian art of 1600-1900, is a newcomer, presenting works in stone, granite, porphyry and marble....
...Another terrific storm struck, and the excitement of thunder and lightning soon soured as Jess and I had to physically shield the kids from hailstones the size of marbles that left bruises....
...“You look at it and suddenly think: oh my God we’ve got a piece of Vietnam in here,” says Marcelo Carvalho, a director of Marble Granite Limestone Warehouse, as he explains the appeal of natural-stone kitchen...
...“I’m getting, I think, more accomplished at being able to make things work with very few resources,” he says. Jazz remains the driving force, but Westbrook doesn’t want to rule anything out....
...The kitchen of the past has never gone away, re-emerging with the invention of the Shaker-style kitchen, natural materials such as wood, marble and granite for kitchen surfaces, and freestanding and broken-plan...
...Slab marble, heavy and expensive, is also incredibly resource intensive....
...(This is no surprise: the big money coming into Madrid these days is Latin American.) Beside me a well-attired French group is murmuring its approval of the croissants....
...A useful resource: Thames Path — Transport for London....
...The range of sensibilities is extreme: from the mystery of time and space, form and formlessness, memories of the body moving through landscape, in Richard Long’s intricate/casual granite and marble “Circle...
...Manufacturing companies from Rotterdam-based Plasticiet to Smile Plastics in south Wales are creating raw materials to rival marble and granite as tabletops, kitchen worktops or bathroom sink surrounds....
...“By putting resources into a structure that was already racially inequitable and unjust, you very well might amplify that injustice and inequity,” he adds....
...Second, it underlined the granite solidity of his base. Not even a heart attack could dampen their faith....
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