The floor had a map of the world in mosaic.
"I always saw each of these portfolios as one little stone in a mosaic," he said.
On his return, he worked almost exclusively in mosaic and stained glass.
The site is especially rich in mosaics belonging to different periods.
The motif is then repeated in much later mosaics from the 12th century.
"I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic."
On each end wall the club crest is depicted in a blue and gold mosaic.
I picked through the smooth warm stones that lay in a dark mosaic all around me.
The images, as they assemble like tiles in a mosaic, are often contradictory.
With the Art nouveau movement, there was a revival of interest in mosaics.