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‘The Marble Palace’, Dubai’s most expensive villa

Dubai’s most expensive home, also known as The Marble Palace, is on sale for $204 million. It boasts marvellous architecture and premium amenities, including...

Celine’s flagship minimalistic store in Miami

Two floors of sky-blue marble and pyramidal forms Blue marble and pyramidal forms appear throughout luxury fashion label Céline’s flagship store in Miami, which has...

The shocking marble pastry shop in Paros that looks like a museum of ancient...

With a unique design and sweets in the windows that look like ephemeral sculptures, the Tserki confectionery has become the new landmark of the...

Living Marmo: The Holiday Home by Fabbricanove

An industrial past in times of war, today a modern villa with swimming pool, the holiday home in Forte dei Marmi built by the...

The Beauty of Marble in Interiors and Facades

Michelangelo's sculptures. The ancient Greek temples. Castle interiors and palaces. The iconic Barcelona Pavilion of Mies van der Rohe. When we approach the history of...

The Lightness of Marble: Carpets, Hanging Lamps and Shelves

Often associated with the idea of “heaviness,” marble can embrace lightness when included in the making of furnishing accessories such as lamps, shelves.The ancients...

Marble and stone as seen in the new 2023 collections

Marble and the other types of natural stone have been among the most commonly-used construction materials since antiquity – Pliny the Elder extolled its virtues...

“Architectures”: Karl Lagerfeld’s fantastic arabesque furnishings

Designer, photographer, illustrator, costume designer, architect, writer, and speaker, Karl Lagerfeld was an all-around artist, with the most unexpected talents and always unsheathed with a surprise...

Modern Architecture: Italian marble for Snøhetta’s Norwegian Opera

A building coming out of the water.All around the world, the Oslo Opera House (in Norwegian Operahuset) is renowned for its shape that looks like...

Industrial style with stone blocks in Alicante

A New York corner in the heart of the Spanish Costa Blanca.The Tribeca Restaurant brings New York taste to Valencia and an industrial environment characterized by five hundred kilos of...