In the street-level Café Vienes, you can sip Champagne and admire a vaulted ceiling and a forest of marble columns.
Alan Burnham, the executive director of the city's nascent Landmark Preservation Commission at the time, filed a "meek request" asking United States Steel to consider preserving the lobby of the building, which Mr. Gray described as "a forest of marble columns" that were "alternately rendered in the monogram of the Singer Company and, quite inventively, as a huge needle, thread and bobbin".
It has forests of marble columns, intricate mosaics, imposing, triumphal arches, temples, theatres and an amphitheatre which was dug out beside the sea.
In 1523, it was rather awkwardly modified with the imposition of an enormous Baroque cathedral amid the Mezquita's seemingly infinite indoor forest of 850 marble, jasper and granite columns.
Ceilings heave with gilded mouldings, chandeliers groan with torrents of crystal, a weight of opulence supported by forests of fluted marble columns topped with gilded Corinthian capitals.
Welles Bosworth, its architect, designed the lobby as a forest of 43 giant marble columns, notable in their Doric simplicity, one of the great commercial interiors of the city.
With a great double-height space, a forest of bronze torchiers and marble counters, it might have been a hotel lobby except that it had no rugs.
But the grave is more difficult to locate among the long grass, the weeds and forest of Celtic crosses and marble Marys.
The former headquarters of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company at 195 Broadway — a sumptuous forest of neo-Classical granite and marble columns, inside and out — was designated an official city landmark yesterday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
However, it remains unclear how the differentiation factor, Bag-of-marbles (Bam), counteracts transcriptional silencing.
Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold pastoral!
