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...Limestone, marble and smooth plaster in all the shades between salt and sand contrast with shining brass and richly grained pale woods....
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...Bolger told us it comes from a plot “on the top of the natural amphitheatre at the highest point of the appellation (limestone, baby!)”. We decided we would use as much of this as was available....
...The painted limestone statue of Sekhemka, Inspector of the Scribes, easily surpassed its estimate of £4m-£6m as it went to an anonymous buyer....
...The company now sources limestone for carpet backing from industrial waste instead of buying virgin limestone. Mr Stephenson says taking inspiration from nature is not “genius work....
...Founded in 1816 and housed in a grand limestone mansion in Paris that overlooks the Seine towards the Jardin des Tuileries, the CDC has helped to anchor the French economy for almost two centuries....
...In Pennsylvania, there are considered three different rights for sale underground – rights to the minerals, such as limestone; rights to coal; and rights to oil and gas....
...Topher Delaney’s fire garden is good, as is her San Francisco garden, where a magnificent limestone boulder appears to be eating a stone sink....
...We are sitting in his office at the Bellagio, which is notable for its walls of Jerusalem limestone and two antique slot machines, including one from the Prohibition era that dispensed mints instead of cash...
...Instead, Meier remains in his duplex on New York’s Upper East Side, in a prewar limestone building where he’s lived for 40 years. He says he still finds the neighbourhood dull....
...Fortunately, that can also be said for many aspects of the steel and limestone building....
...The gleaming floors and walls are limestone imported from Italy. The effect is akin to being in a grand Roman villa rather than a bland Californian skyscraper....
...Still, he said, if temperatures in south-east England became too hot, his family could leave the southward sloping paludina limestone bed he credits for his vintages and “move up north”....
...Larzac is the limestone upland grazed by sheep whose milk is curdled, in damp caves, into salty, deliciously rank Roquefort....
...Large amounts of limestone suggest security and permanence, and a rock-solid balance sheet....
...If there is a building that symbolises the recent boom years in New York, it is very likely 15 Central Park West, a limestone apartment building designed by Robert A.M. Stern....
...The Cambridge facility is housed in an elegant limestone and glass building that opened its doors in 2005....
...We have one of those magnificent views which only the Mediterranean can boast, a view of pine trees and olive branches, dark green and light, of soft red-tiled roofs…and back of it all the rugged grey limestone...
...The Zeckendorfs have sold over $1.1bn worth of luxury apartments in the limestone building, which was designed by Robert AM Stern. It is expected to be ready to move in to by the summer of next year....
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