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Marble bathrooms in New York Times
New York Times - Used throughout the Mediterranean world for thousands of years, marble grew in popularity for bathrooms in England in the seventeenth century, reaching a peak at the close of the eighteenth. During these centuries scores of collectors who saw themselves as connoisseurs of ancient civilizations brought antique marbles to England. Initially they were the wealthiest and most educated people, such as Thomas Howard, fourteenth earl of Arundel, who not only acquired many marbles but also had some of his friends, among them Inigo Jones and John Evelyn, interpret them for him and publish their findings.The grand tour, which made Italy and Greece familiar to a broader social base, ...
The marble - Colorado
* MARBLE, COLORADO Even on a hot Colorado afternoon, the shard of stone feels cool to the touch. A victorianera adjective floats to mind: marmoreal, with its connotations of smoothness, paleness, and death. Lift the stone to the sun, though, and it springs to life, revealing hidden hues-gold, celadon--dancing inside the white."For me this marble is so exquisite," says Madeline Wiener. "So beautiful."
Wiener knows: A Denver sculptor, she is codirector of the Marble Institute of Colorado's MARBLE/marble symposium, which each summer invites artists from around the world to carve here on the banks of Colorado's Crystal River. The stone she praises is indeed beautiful. And it possesses unusual resonance: Some of the nation's greatest monuments are created out of Marble's stone. ...