Sentence examples for marble materials from inspiring English sources

And once inside the Castle, visitors hear the history of its celebrated guests, the lavish parties, the treasury spent on art, marble, materials and craftsmanship brought in from all over from Europe.

The Beaux Arts style had become dated; instead of funding Taft's large-scale Midway Plaisance beautification plan, and providing the originally planned granite, bronze or Georgia marble materials, the trust only allocated sufficient funds and support for a concrete sculpture.

The muted colors and marbled fabrics in the 2009 fall collection were intended to resemble granite, slate, marble: "the materials used in the structure of a home," the designers wrote in an e-mail.

A fifteen kilometer (9.3 mi) tamped-earth ramp was built to transport marble and materials to the construction site and teams of twenty or thirty oxen pulled the blocks on specially constructed wagons.

Ringling curators scoured their galleries and storerooms to track down Marble House material.

It is clad in white Carrara marble, a material ill-suited to Helsinki's temperature extremes, and the slabs on the façade have bowed in a way that accidentally makes it more beautiful.

According to his company's website, Mr Dini's industrial sized 3D printer uses sand and a special binding agent to create a "marble like material" stronger than cement.

The conclusions drawn are in good agreement with similar ones obtained for Dionysos marble, the material used today for the restoration of the Parthenon temple of Athens as well as for the "Conchyliates" shell-stone the material that has been used for the construction of the Zeus Temple at Olympia.

Most of Grand Central, Mr. Horenstein added, is not granite, but limestone, marble and artificial materials.

Natural materials – marble, wood, granite – dominate, and the decor is a relaxing palette of soft greys, whites and lilac.

She used a flashlight to zero in on the statue, a composite of original marble and modern materials.