Sentence examples for decorative stone from inspiring English sources

He initially ordered ceramic vases from his friend and fellow Lunar Society member Josiah Wedgwood, but ceramic proved unable to bear the weight of the decorations and Boulton chose marble and other decorative stone as the material for his vases.

Some 600 printers' marks, decorative stone shields depicting printers' tools that once decorated the facade of the building over the main entrance, will also be restored, Mr. Jacoby said.

The kitchen has a decorative stone niche that was probably a window at one point.

Nelson Otero and four others found jobs at a decorative stone company in New Jersey.

According to research by the architectural historian Andrew Alpern, one of the last tenants, John MacEnulty, salvaged four decorative stone lions for his house in Sands Point, L. I

The team at Petrillo will install more than 400 pieces of decorative stone by September, affixing each fitted block into the Verizon exterior walls with stainless steel anchors.

These could include potted plants, benches, paving stones, planter boxes, signs, statuary, bird baths, fountains, flowers, artwork, or decorative plants.

Laying gravel or decorative stones can give your garden a place for a water feature, a large container full of seasonal annuals or a stately Japanese maple.

The entire apartment glowed with candles, squatting on decorative stones on the floor and down the length of the dinner table.

Ms. Dong, 43, runs a little shop called Arts du Monde on West 25th Street that sells Chinese collectibles, including a species of decorative stones called gongshi, or scholars' rocks.

The arrival of modern humans coincided with the appearance of elaborate cave paintings, decorative stones and beads, and imported shells, suggesting H. sapiens had a more complex society than the Neanderthals.