I think the marble tile at the UN looks like total crap...

[Bennyboy]

What a botched job. that should all look like one piece by laying it to match veins etc. The process is called bookmarking and this was laid randomly and really it bothers me.

[PoliticAverse]

1. I think it accurately reflects how we are one world with countries that can't get along together...

[MineralMan]

2. "Book-matching" won't work with a wall that large.

It really only works with small areas, especially with a material like marble, which varies quickly in three dimensions. The installation is standard for the material. Seems like a small matter to me.

If larger slabs of marble are used, some book-matching can be done, but with 12" tiles, as those appear to be, it doesn't work very well. You might even book-match four tiles, but not the entire wall, and the marble must be ordered with book-matching as a specification. It would be outrageously expensive for a large wall like that. Truly.

[jberryhill]

6. It was done with all facing surfaces of the 9/11 memorial in NY

[MineralMan]

11. Yes, it was, and at enormous cost.

A backdrop for speakers, even at the UN hardly warrants that expense. A memorial can, though. It can be done, but it's a very expensive proposition, and has to be planned before quarrying even begins.

[madaboutharry]

3. I don't see how patterns could have been

matched up because it is a natural stone and there is so much variation. It isn't like matching the repeating pattern in wallpaper.

[MineralMan]

4. Dealers in marble do sell book-matched slabs.

However, when 12" tiles are used, that's not even close to being practical. On a wall that size, it's just not a real possibility at any sort of reasonable price.

[tridim]

5. It looks exactly like the cheap faux-marble vinyl tile that you buy at Lowes.

I've hated it since I knew what the UN was.

[jberryhill]

7. The entire facility is a white elephant

It's awfully dated

[Wounded Bear]

8. Who gives a shit about the tile?

FFS, that is the least of my concerns.

Hey-soos a Christo, are there no limits to the petty bullshit around here?

How about we worry about what's going on there, instead of going all TMZ on the fucking furnishings?

[DefenseLawyer]

9. I'm not sure, but I think it's possible to make a comment about something insignificant

while maintaining an appropriate level of understanding and concern for more important matters. Lighten up, Francis.

[uppityperson]

10. Seriously. Nt

[sufrommich]

15. Someone on the internet is interested in

something you're not interested in! I know,it's an outrage.

[cynatnite]

12. Call Mike Holmes...

He'd make it right.

[FSogol]

13. 1st world problems.

[NuclearDem]

14. Hideous indeed. I'm thinking earth tones!

Brown and beige and brown and beige and light brown and beige and brown and beige!