Many of the public buildings are of fine marble and building stone from nearby quarries.
Mineral resources include iron, lead, and gold, and fine marble is quarried in the Sierra Nevada of the Baetic Cordillera.
Although the ceiling is Renaissance, the slabs of fine marble and the Classical columns are pieces of original plunder from other buildings.
As with the five bathrooms, or heads, its counters were cut from thick granite, and the floor was a mosaic of fine marble.
Others were led around the company's grounds by auctioneers, buying huge pallets of teak and mahogany and a state-of-the-art marble factory along with its inventory of 8,000 tons of fine marble slabs.
Elsewhere in the show is a model of a lifebuoy rendered in fine marble, similar to the marble versions he has previously made of the surveillance cameras that constantly watched him in China.
And so the people of Aphrodisias, living near a quarry, celebrated themselves and the good times of Roman rule with a profusion of fine marble statues to gods, heroes, emperors and philosophers.
They still speak of Ilya Repin's painting of the anguished Ivan the Terrible cradling the dying son he killed in a rage, and remark on the absence of fine marble in New York subways.
Late in life, Einstein likened his famous equation to a building, one wing of which (the left) was built of "fine marble", the other (the right) of "low grade wood" (1936, 311).
From gilded rococo-style furnishings to a sea of fine marble, the lobby and common spaces are grand and palatial.
