Sentence examples for mottled marble from inspiring English sources

The walls and mottled marble floor are the colour of claret.

Philip Prowse's production of Pygmalion has an onstage stage with red velvet curtains and mottled marble pillars; blasts of Tristan und Isolde ring out; the massive drawing-room lillies look as if they're bellowing an aria.

Start to create the mottled marble effect.

A capital of mottled pink marble, acquired in 1957 from a Paris dealer by Dr. Maillant, apparently relates to the debris that appeared in the market in the 1820s when the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa in the Roussillon, the French part of historic Catalonia, began to be torn apart.

The breakfast room was green and white, woodwork painted white, walls covered in Nile green cloth; it had a wood mantel with facings of mottled white marble.

A few poinsettias can brighten the house; 1-800-Poinsettias.Com sells a "Deluxe Three-Point Plant" ($39.95) in red, white, pink or "marble" (mottled pink).

Consisting of delicate tentacles sliced in cross-section a few microns thick, drizzled with olive oil, and spread in a wide circle, this spectacular dish has the mottled appearance of antique marble.

The mantle is of mottled purple and white marble, and has a built-in mirror above it.

Their showcase is a trim little boutique with mottled mirrors, wood shelves stained cocoa, milky marble counters and a copper ceiling.

Above a ground floor of marble rises a wall of mottled Roman brick the color of light-orange marmalade, with buttonlike details that impart a kinship withStanford White's Century Association of 1890 on West 43rd Street.

The upper gallery was a holding area for his newest work, still under wraps: a trove of sculptures in marble and bronze, many of them apparently mottled with corals and barnacles, jewellery and artefacts, and photo-realist paintings marking a departure from Hirst's blunter confrontations with mortality and money.