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...Now he lives there with his family in rooms lined in exquisite Portuguese tiles....
...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...
...Marble — as well as its peers quartz and granite — relies on centuries of geological compression to form....
...The early lino patterns were imitation tiles, wood, granite and marble even Flintstones-style random rubble....
...Room 1, where I stayed, has lavish black-and-white marble cladding befitting the former Bungehuis director’s office, parquet underfoot and beech timber panelling....
...In the 128 rooms and eight suites, the floors’ original terrazzo and tile work have been preserved, likewise a fair amount of the original furniture....
...No blasting was necessary for construction among the granite outcroppings....
...Banks, as personified by their granite, steel, and marble buildings, are supposed to be the bedrock of the economy, not casinos. Yes, the Glass-Steagall Act was and is an excellent idea....
...I watched the speeches standing by the newly-cleaned marble fountain, my shoe leather dampening from its surrounding water jets gurgling on to a pavement of Chinese granite....
...One example is Levantina, the maker of marble tiles and granite kitchen worktops, which was bought for €540m (£458m) by Charterhouse Capital of the UK and Impala of Spain four years ago....
...The latest Spanish private equity deal to run into trouble is Levantina, the maker of marble tiles and granite kitchen worktops, which was bought for €540m ($680m) by Charterhouse Capital of the UK and Impala...
...The paved areas have ludicrous polished marble. Few people know precisely why all this has happened, but everyone is actually sure of the reasons....
...Developers, architects and homebuyers have traded the glass, steel and slate of towers they favoured earlier this decade for the limestone, brick and granite of the city’s prewar buildings....
...Petrified wood, broken up and set in resin tiles or slabs, is as hard as granite and has a marbled finish complete with tree knots....
...The pearl among these is the island of Sveti Stefan, a tightly wound knot of mellowed stone and red tiles joined to the mainland by a short causeway....
...(He opted for limestone in his bathroom, while Sharma went for teak and black marble.)...
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