The marble floor in the lobby is polished so well you can see your reflection.
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Before them the devout, kneeling in their sarongs, murmur prayers, light joss-sticks and touch their foreheads to the marble floor.
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This woman had vulnerable brown eyes and flat pointy shoes that clicked too loudly on the marble floor.
The real showstopper, however, was the bath, with its vanilla- colored tile walls, black-and-white marble floor, enormous terrazzo soaking tub and huge stall shower.
The 27, 000-square-foot palace isn't just nice marble floor and wall space.
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The walls and mottled marble floor are the colour of claret.
Drop your book bags on the marble floor, and then practice saying "muy bonita" when you see the view of the Pacific Ocean from your secluded balcony.
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.
With its gleaming white marble floor, minimalist decor and crew of white-gloved waiters bearing trays of lemon tea, the sales office at Lodha Fiorenza looks more like a plush salon than something makeshift on a construction site where a tall crane stands next to half-finished towers.
Escorted to our room by an elegant receptionist, the folds of whose sari swished across the checkered marble floor as she walked, we passed through a library lined with teak and rosewood bookshelves and furnished with a table inlaid with marquetry of breathtaking intricacy and skill.
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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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In the first-floor gallery, free-standing marble statues of men, women and horses glow against a background of grey concrete walls and columns.
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.
The widow of Rich Gabrielle, whom witnesses said was trapped under marble blown off the wall in the lobby of the 78th floor, told the Times the tape eased her fears about her husband's death.
He recommended we thump the taps, so while my husband and I went upstairs to try this, my three-year-old son ran for a pee into the marble-clad bathroom whose door opens directly onto the shower floor.
On the second floor, there's a master suite with a marble bath and urinal in the bathroom.
On the top floor, Mr. Hudec placed a row of seven white-marble-arched Palladian windows to form a decorative arcade.
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The only painting on the ground floor is Stingel's self-portrait, nestled behind some marble columns near the boat-landing entrance to the palace.
Ms. Jin also hand-selected white marble, imported from Italy, for some of the floors and columns on the first floor.
All rooms have oversized workspaces, bright bathrooms and floor to ceiling windows, and the corner rooms have views of the imposing white marble Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
The floor is sprinkled with signs of the zodiac and bisected by a line of white marble onto which a sun ray falls each day at noon.
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