Moving beyond family's real estate business, low-profile Raheja now has interests in car batteries, cement, ceramic tiles, publishing, cable, petrochemicals, retail and software.
The floors and even the wooden elevator are covered with terra-cotta and ceramic tiles recovered from old Lebanese houses, while the ceilings are all impossibly high, true to Lebanese architectural tradition.
Selaron had moved to Rio de Janeiro's Lapa neighbourhood in the 1980s, where he began decorating the more than 200 steps leading to the Convent of Santa Teresa with ceramic tiles.
SASSUOLO, Italy The town of Sassuolo, best known for its ceramic tiles, is a place in the Emilia-Romagna region so small that the professional soccer team here can't even use its own stadium.
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At the 96th Street station, Ms. Sze, a Chelsea artist who recently completed a sculpture for the High Line, will use ceramic tiles to play with travelers' sense of light, space and perspective.
Still, where there is a will there is often a way: We estimate that most of the 40 richest are entirely or mostly self-made, having built fortunes in diverse sectors such as ceramic tiles, airlines and banks.
Instead of the usual white ceramic tiles and bright fluorescent lights that give other Paris Metro stops the surreal glow of a subterranean hospital, the entire vault here is covered with dark, copper-coloured panels joined by oversized rivets.
It is thanks to companies like these that Italy still exports more food-processing machines, washing machines, fridges, shoes and shoe-making machines, ski boots, ceramic tiles, jewels, woollen and silk clothes, radiators and boilers, optical frames and neck-ties than any other country in the world.
No one, he says, makes ceramic tiles as good as those available from Italy, while clay bricks, the favored wall material in his home market of Western Australia, would be on the Buckeridge list but for a bitter war of words with the socialist-leaning state government.
But the real money is in flooring: Mohawk Industries , which makes all sorts of flooring from ceramic tile, to carpet tiles to rugs.
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The project, called the Potteries Tile Trail, is being carried out with the Tiles and Architectural Ceramic Society and is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The pieces of ceramic fabric, which act like a grouting for the tiles, were probably shaken out during the vibrations of launch, Nasa said.
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