Dealers like Julius Lowy and Henry Heydenryk in New York, Gold Leaf Studios in Washington, D.
It is the process of beating the country out more thinly, like gold leaf.
Seated on top is a small bowl of sweetened caviar, delicately draped by an edible gold leaf.
If you had decorative carved mouldings covered in 3, 000 square feet of gold leaf to clean, how would you do it?
The sloped ceiling of the living roof has a gold leaf inset that is designed to reflect natural light.
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He had a mausoleum built of white marble and decorated with gold leaf.
She was also presented with an edible replica of the Irish state coach, made from chocolate, sugar and 24-carat gold leaf.
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The cathedral and the Santo Domingo church are also worth a visit for their gold leaf interiors and baroque facades alone.
Climb down a darkened staircase lined with rotating photography exhibit and walk through a sparkling hallway covered entirely in gold leaf.
In the 1940s England's Coulter Galleries is said to have burned the frames of its Victorian paintings to salvage the gold leaf.
He is referring to the 23.9 karat gold leaf on the ceiling and chandeliers "handcrafted by the Ritz's resident gilder", he adds.
The New Zealand native shimmered into the spotlight, decked out in a dress festooned in something that looked like gold leaf.
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Every aspect of this book is precious, from the gold leaf that makes the pages glow to the image painted by Rogier van der Weyden.
This one gleams with fresh white paint and gold leaf.
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Shekede said she and colleague Stephen Rickerby were surprised to discover paintings of remarkable "sophistication" -- with walls decorated with gold leaf, precious pigments and organic glazes.
In keeping with the opulence of those times, many thousands of sheets of gold leaf again adorn the steel pillars, lit by vast chandeliers created by glass blowers from Delhi.
Just before the dot-com bubble burst in the U.S., some restaurants served up roast lamb basted in flakes of gold or desserts garnished with curls of gold leaf.
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Gold leaf mosaics, bronze wall reliefs of Napoleon and elaborate wall and ceiling murals make this place feel like any other museum in the city, save for the fact that this is where you are sleeping.
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Its mighty yen was going to let it eclipse the U.S. as the world's economic superpower as it started to snap up trophy assets like Rockefeller Center in New York City, while at home the sushi was sprinkled with gold leaf.
In addition to using the living system as artwork, Brown made a series of images with a scanning electron microscope, and using the techniques to create illuminated manuscripts, he applied gold leaf to the regions of the prints where the bacterial gold deposits were found.
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Keene couldn't use regular paint because the sun and the elements would ruin it, so he used gold-leaf metals in blue, gold and green.
An impressive domed ceiling, gold-leaf detailing, mosaic flooring, sculptures and majestic chandeliers make Corinthian Club an awesome five-floored venue.
The 4, 000-square-foot property features several 18-karat-gold-leaf ceilings, a guesthouse and 2.3 acres (just under a hectare) of grounds landscaped by Henry Matsutani, designer of the Japanese Tea Gardens in Golden Gate Park.
The vehicle has a radiator grille with golden flourishes, and the hood of this Chinese edition vehicle will be covered with leaf gold formed like snakeskin.
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The illuminated celestial-meets-industrial scene of gold and aluminium leaf spheres and lines, modern by 1930s standards, had been obscured for decades by florescent lights that were modern by '60s standards.
The stylized mural of the original high, arched, Fifth Avenue entrance, a geometric abstraction of industrial gears and wheels executed in gold and aluminum leaf, had been painted over and partly destroyed by a hung acrylic ceiling and fluorescent fixtures.
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Some of the widely circulated gold coins include the South African krugerrand, the U.S. eagle and the Canadian maple leaf.
As the afternoon wears on and the mountains are stained gold and pink, deepening into purple twilight, we sip one flavoured brandy after another - blueberry, beech leaf, rowanberry - and listen as everyone round the table competes to tell anecdotes of local life.
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