However, most of the ornate plaster and marble claddings have been taken into safe storage.
Under its coffered dome is an impeccable collection of lead, plaster and marble statues, centered on Michael Rysbrack's Hercules.
Last December, they opened an adjoining guesthouse, complete with Venetian plaster walls, marble baths, red velvet settees and the original ornate tile work.
And in front of this gated terrain of white plaster and marble stands a black wooden cigar-store figure in a liberty cap — a liberated slave?
STEP 2 Architectural archaeologists combed the interior, recovering a wide variety of artifacts, including plaster cornices, marble floors and the building's marquee.
All these materials and more are available from a growing number of designers who are bypassing traditional materials -- wood, plaster and marble -- for less costly industrial supplies.
He spent money on a shingled treehouse with its own deck for Theo and a pool in the backyard plastered in marble dust.
Walking into the giddy, ornate plaster-and-marble ornamented lobby of the Beaux-Arts Wolcott Hotel, on 31st Street near Fifth Avenue, I fooled myself for an instant, thinking that I'd returned to the elegant New York of 1910, although the Japanese punksters and Russian tourists pushing enormous wheeled suitcases up to the bare-bones modern reception desk spoiled that fantasy somewhat.
Rodin is all exhibitionistic flamboyance, the master sculptor, whether working in marble, plaster or terra cotta.
In the following decades she built many often unsettling environments of latex and found objects and structures of marble, plaster, and glass.
