Thus, weathered stone bricks form a backdrop for travertine sinks and sleek glass showers, and antique carpets complement custom-designed bedcovers.
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In the splendid travertine-faced bath, an oversize tub in the middle of the room afforded a view to the garden below.
But their best move was turning the bathrooms into "water temples, " travertine sanctums with unenclosed shower areas equipped with two rain heads apiece.
Still a bit tipsy on Jack Daniels, they decided to leave a few of their live duck decoys in the travertine marble fountain located in the lobby.
At the Sheldon, concrete is covered in travertine, quarried near Rome where it was cut into pieces and then attached here by an Italian crew.
Next year archaeologists hope to open to the public Augustus's mausoleum - once a monument in white travertine marble that is now an overgrown ruin.
The flat-roofed, rectangular glass house, with white travertine marble floors and decks, floats elegantly on steel supports along the banks of the Fox River in Plano, Ill.
World War II brought construction to a halt, but in the 1950s, EUR was revitalised into a busy commercial and residential centre with stark, travertine buildings, axially-planned street planning and looming columns.
Kahn admitted that ancient Roman vaults and arches were his inspiration, and by combining them with advanced engineering and a simple palette of materials concrete, travertine and white oak he created a place that is of the present but also invokes an ancient past.
Johnson Library, a midcentury futuristic cube at the University of Texas at Austin, the imperial and the folksy are at odds: Sweeping travertine stairs and a monumental display of scarlet storage boxes emblazoned with gold presidential seals contrast with an animatronic, Stetson-wearing Johnson posed at a split-rail fence.
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