All was marble, gold, velvet and tassels.
Think an Art Deco design, with black and white marble, gold, silver and mirrors — everywhere!
On a slab of black marble, gold script spelled out "Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, December 1, 1949 December 2, 1993".
104 Kingsland Road, London E2, 020 7033 0588 This ridiculously over-the-top Soho bistro is full of marble, gold, rococo lamps and leather and very pink uniforms for the waiting staff.
The decoration - all marble, gold leaf, imperial motifs and colours, luminous terracotta, chariots, cherubs, swags, friezes, lions, mosaics, wreaths, slaves and spears - is a perfect handmaiden for Wagner's theatrical bombast.
It is an enormous fortress containing a vast housing column, a gigantic magma-driven power plant, a glass-domed throne room, and a temple featuring, in QuantumSawdust's words, a "Sun Diagram mosaic… made out of marble, gold, obsidian, and trifle pewter".
Miami is better known for its multicoloured art deco, and for the crystal, marble, gold-mosaic, be-fountained, lush, louche creations of the postwar hotel designer Morris Lapidus.
Seabees, or naval repair men, fixed battle damage and wired the palaces for broadband Internet and 110-volt electricity, but otherwise left the faux marble, gold-colored leaf and kitschy furniture unaltered.
For statuettes, ivory and amber, limestone, marble, wood, gold, silver, bronze, and terra-cotta were used; of these, terra-cotta was by far the most common, bronze and marble less so, and the rest rare.
Marble columns, gold decor and money are everywhere.
Statues were of limestone, marble, bronze, gold and ivory, terra-cotta, and wood.
