Afterward, he showed us every detail of the cathedral, from the mosaics that had only just begun to cover the immense interior to the different types of marble being fitted to the exterior.
The floor is made of 96 different types of marble (Work No. 1347), and the idea of mismatching is taken to extremes: every piece of cutlery, glassware, chair and table is different (Work No. 1343).
THE DETAILS: More than 40 different types of marble were used; the wine cellar holds 20,000 bottles; an enormous iron chandelier next to the library took two years to make.
It's packed with other frills like a quote from "The Gettysburg Address" and Iowa limestone on the exterior, and 29 different types of marble and woodwork made from Iowa trees on the interior.
Inspired by various classical designs (i.e., St. Peter's, the US Capitol), the architects incorporated FOUR different types of marble, adorned it with 219 pillars, and crowned it with a big-ass dome and a 5ft 7in golden eagle.
The statue's head was not to Garrick's satisfaction, and Roubiliac had to replace it with another, carved from a different type of marble.
Result of cleaning experiment with two different poultices on the three different types of Carrara marble.
Enlarged parts of the cross sections of the three different types of Carrara marble showing the cleaning depth after cleaning with a poultice containing 0.1 M cys + 0.1 M SD. a Fabricotti, b Vaglia, c La Piana.
Three different types of white Carrara marble (Carrara Bianco): Carrara Fabricotti, Carrara Vagli and Carrara La Piana from the Carrara quarry in Italy were received.
In this study, water absorption and dehydration time of five different types of natural stones (marble, limestone, travertine, onyx and granite) were comparatively examined.
