1.   Hometown architect Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer specified repairs to the creamy tile shell and the floor was paved with matching shades of marble.

2.   Instead of parquet, the floors are paved in a pale gray marble from Greece.

3.   Someone built the adjacent Catholic shrine, paved its floor with pink tiles, entrusted its open-air altar with sprays of silk roses.

4.   The atrium floor is paved in alternating bands of polished and unpolished black marble, leading to a bookstore, theater and an elegant cafe.

5.   The floor is paved with black terrazzo sprinkled with twinkling crystal chips.

6.   The floor is paved with three-quarter-inch-square pale green tiles, from Bisazza Mosaico in Manhattan.