The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.

BBC: Tracing the coffee house revolution to its Ukrainian roots

Silvio Berlusconi's underground mausoleum has 100 tonnes of marble abstract sculpture on top.

BBC: Berlusconi: Man of many parts

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.

FORBES: Head 2 Head

He matured and developed, listened and learned and, most of all, began to realise that his fate lay not as the jovial, grinning quiz show captain, the subject of wistful glances from dear old Sue Barker, but rather in the wood-panelled office at the top of the Ibrox marble staircase.

BBC: Chick Young's view

Guests will find all the top amenities common to luxury hotels, including marble bathrooms, flat-screen televisions, Frette sheets, goose down comforters and pillow-top mattresses made especially for Four Seasons by Sealy.

FORBES: Lakefront Luxe

On either side of the Supreme Court steps, on top of fifty-ton marble blocks, sits a sculpted figure: the Contemplation of Justice, on the left, and the Authority of Law, on the right.

NEWYORKER: Benched

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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