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Manufactured fireplaces are made with sheet metal or glass fire boxes. Electric fireplaces can be built-in replacements for wood or gas or retrofit with log inserts or electric fireboxes. A few types are wall mounted electric fireplaces, electric fireplace stoves, electric mantel fireplaces, and fixed or free standing electric fireplaces.
The principals of McKim, Mead & White (left to right): William Rutherford Mead, Charles Follen McKim, and Stanford White. McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm based in New York City. The firm came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York.
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), [1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
A Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [2]
Lipová marble (lipovský mramor) from Horní Lipová, Jeseník District: dark and light-coloured; Sněžník marble (sněžníkovský mramor) from Horní Morava, Ústí nad Orlicí District: light-coloured; Supíkovice marble (supíkovický mramor) from Supíkovice, Jeseník District: grey-white; Marble mis-nomers:
To the right of the main foyer is the parlor, also known as the living room or drawing room, [359] with a large marble fireplace. [116] The parlor, added during the expansion of 1811, [356] has full-height windows that face the house's porch. [298] Compared with the other rooms in the mansion, the drawing room has deeper windows; its marble ...
[25] [47] [16] Overlooking each courtroom is a marble balcony, reached by staircases in the respective courtrooms. There are also ornately carved fireplaces, which contain marble mantelpieces lined with bronze surrounds made by Tiffany & Co. [25] [47] The seventh floor and the attic housed the city's records on steel shelves until 2017. [49]
The hotel's 500 residential guest apartments each had its own kitchenette, dining room, and drawing room with fireplace. [10] [21] Some had as many as 11 rooms, and up to five baths. [21] The cruciform lobby had a mezzanine on the north, west, and south sides, and marble-clad piers divided the north and south walls into three bays.