Marble Fireplace: The Room's Focal Point

An original marble fireplace. The material is grey-white marble with dark grey veins, or beige limestone; the design is simple: square pilasters on both sides, topped by a thick horizontal mantelpiece, with minimal curved edges. The interior of the firebox has a black cast iron backplate, already blackened by smoke. Two or three items are placed on the mantelpiece, and a mirror or painting hangs on the wall above. Avoid: using Rococo fireplaces with intricate carvings and figures, using modern fireplaces with electronic simulated flames, painting the fireplace white to cover the stone, filling the mantelpiece with decorations.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座原有的大理石壁爐。材質是灰白帶深灰紋路的大理石,或是米黃的石灰岩;造型是簡潔的:兩側是方形的柱腳、上方是一片厚實的水平檯面,只有極少的曲線收邊。爐膛內部是黑色的鑄鐵背板,已經被燻黑。檯面上放著兩三件東西,上方牆面掛著一面鏡子或一幅畫。避免:使用有繁複雕花與人像的洛可可壁爐、使用電子仿真火焰的現代壁爐、把壁爐漆成白色遮住石材、在檯面上擺滿裝飾品。