Sentence examples for marble piers from inspiring English sources

There are three aisles separated by columns with galleries above and great marble piers rising up to support the dome.

He placed a colonnade of slender marble piers around a glass-walled inner shell, conflating the Greek colonnade and the American curtain wall, the two architectural images of democracy.

The record price for a piece of neo-Classical American furniture sold at auction is $704,000, paid for a stamped Charles-Honore Lannuier marble-top pier table at Christie's in 1991.

Among the pieces of special note at Sotheby's are a marble-topped pier table signed and stamped by the Paris-trained cabinetmaker Charles-Honoré Lannuier of New York; a double-eagle-carved mahogany sofa from New York; and a 10-foot-tall ebonized and stenciled bookcase signed by Robert Fisher of New York.

The engaged pillars of the bridge are topped by piers supporting marble groups that are long gone.

Decorative details from the early 19th century are intact, including impressive marble and wooden fireplaces, pier mirror and floor-to-ceiling parlor windows.

Fort Greene Brownstone $1,549,000 BROOKLYN6363 South Elliott Place A four-story, 3,600-square-foot Italianate brownstone with original marble mantels, pine plank floors, pier mirrors and period moldings.

"MISSING: a set of marbles," wrote the journalist and commentator Piers Morgan on Twitter.

The elaborate, rather adventurous pier tables had white marble tops, petticoat mirrors and beautifully carved mahogany scrolled-leg supports with eagle heads and lion-paw feet.

He masked seven floors behind three great horizontal divisions, framed by Corinthian columns and piers and topped by a marble cornice.

The piers have attached shafts of marble, and, with the vaults that they support, create a vista of great complexity from every angle.