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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....
...all invested....
...(a “surgical” repair job was performed on the pink granite needle and its dazzling gold pyramidion regilded)....
...the increasing power and wealth of the city’s fashion houses and the creep of global starchitecture: all have made their mark on a fascinating and multi-layered centro storico....
...The words “simple”, “clean” and “purity” crop up a lot when they talk about their work, as do granite, steel and polished concrete....
...After all, the gallery’s mix of monarchs and models, pop stars and proto-feminists now looks, perhaps rather surprisingly, remarkably modern....
...And at its base it is granite so [residents] are grounded in the rock of New York City.”...
...Abandoned since the 7th century, its yawning marble squares, fractured by cold winters and earthquakes, are pierced with high weeds....
...granite combination, or updated in black-stained ash combined with a black Marquinia, Alpi green, Sahara Noir or Calacatta gold marble....
...Unlike the little hole it was back in the day, the main dining hall at its current venue a stone’s throw from La Scala boasts vaulted ceilings, granite columns and marble statues....
...Bathrooms, in contrasting combinations of marble and coloured granite, are indulgent in the extreme....
...of oak, granite and blue velvet, while the other was dramatic and luxurious, the fireplace recreated in ombre-hued ceramic and surrounded by red travertine, bamboo and red velvet....
...Designed by McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1910, the original Penn Station was a Beaux Arts palace of pink granite and marble....
...in the 1960s) and, best of all, an all-singing, all-dancing padded iPad that allows you to control your entire in-room experience without leaving your bed....
...The elegant concrete, steel, marble, wood and granite structure was designed by local architect Alberto Kalach, and opened in 2006....
...The building houses 33 bedrooms, a private members’ club and an all-day restaurant, the Spence, open to all, that occupies the lavish former banking hall....
...“This flag, the United States flag, is recognised all over the world for all the good that it stands for, and all of the sacrifice that it stood for,” Rob says....
...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....
...Our first summit was Pingora Peak, a formidable granite dome, near-vertical on all sides and dubbed “impossible” by the first Europeans to lay eyes on it....
...“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...
...Most of his sculptural pieces are made not of the softer white Carrara marble of the region but of the hardest stones, imported basalt and black granite....
...Marble — as well as its peers quartz and granite — relies on centuries of geological compression to form....
...in severe grey granite and furbelows of ornamental ironwork....
...into view of Syon Park and quaint Isleworth with Michael Blees’ beautiful All Saints Church, 1967-70....
...What could be more truthful than the rough granite of a historic castle, the delicately carved marble of an ancient statue or the exposed steel of a much-loved landmark? Perhaps not....
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