Williams Tower elevator marble finishes

Twelve elevators with twelve different European marbles — Tom's example of marble as a beautiful but limited material when sealed.

They do seal them — they put a plastic coating on it, and they're beautiful. One of my favorite sets of elevators in the country is at the Williams Tower, just west of Houston. It's the tallest building on the Beltway at the nine o'clock position, a seventy-story building, and each elevator has a different type of marble from Europe. It's got twelve elevators with twelve different marbles in different colors. Yes, Johnny, you're right, they do seal them. But if you scratch through the sealant, you run into problems.