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...Further uptown, amid the bristling scrum of pencil-thin supertalls that now create a fence for the southern edge of Central Park, by far the finest is Rafael Viñoly’s 432 Park Avenue, a simple, reductive...
...The island is a symbol, an idea of informal family life embodied in a deathly slab of marble, a funeral bier for food....
...I wanted slabs of marble and waterfall marble sinks. I love just looking at it. It makes me feel opulent and relaxed....
...There are single-slab Italian marble bath tubs: each slab costs $130,000 and forms two tubs. Naturally, things go bad....
...Around me, huge, fractured slabs of Lake Khovsgol, in its solid seasonal form, rear up in jagged stacks, like the ruined battlements of some frost king’s fortress....
...Like shells and sponges cast into a slab of marble, they coagulate to create a coherent and seductive surface....
...It is also the most accessible one by far, because all you do is pay the park entrance fee and drive up to the car park. A stone wall separates you and the crater....
...(Thankfully, his belief that play could lead to a new appreciation of sculpture came to fruition in other pieces, most notably Slide Mantra – a black marble version is in Oo-Dori Park, Sapporo, Japan, and...
...A slim slab of fresh paneer on black truffle purée is garnished with a mosaic of green chillies and onions....
...And the interiors are no less splendid in their extravagant use of marble and basalt (polished and matt), bronze and blackened steel....
...So I go and peer into a model of the building, a huge white slab the size of a reception desk....
...In his den, there is a marble slab table with two chess sets set up side by side. Who does he play with? “Right now, no one. It is sort of there prospectively as much as anything else,” he said....
...Autumn in Regent’s Park: no tent, no booths, no crowds, but yes, an actual, physical presence for art....
...Cold, you can cut great fingers of it to eat as they are or generous slabs to sandwich in ciabatta. It is my mum’s very favourite and one of mine....
...Hosts do that “leaping from a slab and escaping the lab” thing again, and the technicians are as surprised by this as they are every time it happens....
...If you can find an empty enough spot to park yourself, that is....
...Prices on her booth ranged from £500 for a 6th-century BC Egyptian faience, which sold early on, to £380,000 for a svelte Roman marble Venus Pudica (c2nd century AD)....
...Frank himself had two offices: one a grand marble-lined club room, the other a secret eyrie in the spire....
...Imagine a slab of reclaimed marble on top of this. Imagine that painted. Imagine it in a bold fabric. I do. Buyers should be prepared to pay for quality....
...But her marble-specked concrete façade would become stained by pollution and a popular aversion to Brutalist design....
...Adjoining the living room below is the dining room, where a large table — a slab of marble resting on two legs — has a draining channel cut around the edges....
...My high-ceilinged, marble-floored chalet has a beckoning private terrace and a bath set beside a full-height window that stares out into the forest....
...sprawling Hudson Yards development taking shape on the far west side of the island, where new buildings promise far greater efficiency as well as hip amenities, like proximity to the High Line elevated park...
...Mounted in the central gallery, “Corpo di Pietra — rami” (“Body of Stone, branches”, 2016) proffers a triptych of marble slabs, their surfaces carved to summon both rugged bark and human veins, into which...
...The higher bar is “definitely making it more difficult” for people to get loans, says Scott Ingram, a property agent at Century 21 in Toronto....
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