The ultimate discovery is a monumental marble vessel derived from an Ancient Roman model.
Trump Tower echoes Seagram's bronze-toned reflective glass, flat top, and monumental marble veneers.
Past the palace's monumental marble staircase, the atmosphere within the 15 royal chambers does feel amusingly electric.
The complexity of their stances, expressive of strong feeling, was unprecedented in monumental marble sculpture of the Renaissance.
In the more commonly used form the tile was approximately semicircular, and in the monumental marble examples the imbrex had vertical sides and an angular top.
Claudia Huckle is the fruity-sounding Olga, and Brindley Sherratt excels as the lovestruck old Gremin, holding court in his monumental marble-pillared hall.
Included are also works that many might believe were quite immovable, among them the delicately carved but monumental marble tomb of the two children of Charles VIII on loan from Tours.
While the last fourth-plinth sculpture, Marc Quinn's monumental marble statue Alison Lapper Pregnant, explicitly critiqued the history of grand old men immortalised in the square, Schütte, with his architectural fantasy, has made something that is more connected with urban life.
One case, an homage to the playwright Eugène Ionesco, holds a monumental marble sculpture of a rhinoceros along with many pictures of rhinoceroses tacked to the grimy walls and big carvings of rhinoceros horns.
In a short, unfinished story of 1814 called "The Assassins", he lovingly described "piles of monumental marble and fragments of columns that in their integrity almost seemed the work of some intelligence more sportive and fantastic than the gross conceptions of mortality".
On one side of the room, which previous owners used as a bedroom or dining room, there is another dramatic Starck feature: a basin set into a monumental marble block with the designer's signature serpentine fixtures and horn-shaped metal towel holders.
