"Crystal chandeliers and marble lobbies are not what buyers are looking for today, " he said.
Rags and raincoats are as worthy as bronze and marble as materials for making art.
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Ms. Guinness went with a French country-style kitchen with nickel faucets, oak floors and marble counters.
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As the metal and marble get rained on, they become green and mossy and lovely.
The fluffy feather beds, overstuffed pillows, rich mahogany furniture and marble bathrooms befit a centuries-old Italian estate.
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The master suite comes fully equipped with fireplace, two walk-in closets, private office, large terrace and marble bath spa.
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Leading the project to restore David is the Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Italy's premier restoration institute for stone and marble.
Every corner of Upper House spells luxury, from the glass and marble lobby to the sleek rooms with rain showers and sculptures.
Set in a restored relic that overlooks the Douro, the eight rooms at Guest House Douro have gorgeous wooden floors, queen beds and marble baths.
Wood paneling and marble pillars line the hushed reception area.
The grandiose property features a Champagne and caviar lounge with live entertainment, a spa and marble hammam and restored ballrooms once frequented by Elizabeth Taylor, the Beatles and Oscar Wilde.
The latest installment loses the ancient cupolas and marble temples of Renaissance Italy for the cramped, squat cities of wood and brick and the boundless frontier of 18th century America.
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If a word could describe the yachts that skim into harbor at these events it might be "glimmering": pearlescent hulls, onyx floors and marble staircases, exotic woods varnished to a fare-thee-well.
She prefers Streatham, further south in London, where she could buy a palace for the money gentrifiers are keen to pay for her house, with its original cornicing and marble fireplaces.
The Vatican itself owns what it believes to be a fragment of the table from the Last Supper and marble stairs that are the same ones Jesus ascended on His way to appear before Pontius Pilate.
Guests arriving by car or cab check in at a lower motor lobby, where elevators can whisk them to their upper-floor rooms, bypassing its glitzy glass and marble main lobby fronting West Georgia Street, a major downtown thoroughfare.
Diplomats and heads of state bed down surrounded by antiques, jewel-toned silk walls, crystal chandeliers and marble bathrooms at the 138-room Hotel Imperial Vienna, which was built as the residence of the Prince of Wurttemberg, a European aristocrat, in 1863.
But any insights into the later 19th-century American work are finessed for a nostalgic re-creation of a period installation with paintings hung close and "skied" to the ceiling, and a crowd of heroic figures and marble maidens on the floor.
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Witness the coexistence of rough planes that incorporate sand and suavely brushed passages, or of raucous invocations of leaves and fruit, and illusionistic wood grain and marble (an echo of his early training as a master decorator, as well as of Cubist collage).
With brilliant stained glass windows, elaborate sculpted woodwork and 35 varieties of Italian, African and Belgian marble used throughout the interior (think grand pillars and a colourful marble floor), this is the place to take someone you want to impress.
Here, she stands atop a flowing wave of red and white marble, and emerging from beneath her is the winged skeleton of Death, holding aloft an hourglass: a terrifying memento mori hidden in this setting of religious beauty.
While the public areas still wear their Dorothy Draper-era, retina-stinging magenta-and-emerald floral patterns, the 682 guest rooms have flat-panel TVs, granite-and-marble bathrooms, and feather-top beds.
Despite their robust modeling, they seem schematic, as do many of the images of young blondes that follow, paintings by such masters as Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and the Pollaiuolo brothers, and suave marble busts by Desiderio da Settignano and Andrea del Verrocchio.
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Increasing pomp and opulence distinguish Phyfe's work from 1815 to 1825, which features richly figured mahogany, kingwood, rosewood, white and colored marble, brass inlay, lavish gilding and finely cast mounts of ormolu (gilt metal).
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As the metal base and the marble get rained on, they become green and mossy and lovely.
In the hotel's Aqua Palace, pools come in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials, including marble and the prized hinoki wood that adds a special scent to the bathing experience.
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Then her relatives carried her chair while she hobbled up and down each marble stairway, and rolled her in front of the masterpieces.
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