Beauty built one piece at a time

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When Oprah Winfrey ordered mosaics for her private villa in Miami last year, she chose Lebanon-based Mosaic Marble — and she must have been pleased as she placed an order for another project this year. The 260 different pieces of mosaic gracing the municipality of Rome are also the work of Mosaic Marble, a bid they won against an Italian counterpart. Offering more than 5,000 designs at starting prices of $330 per piece, the company is the leading mosaic producer in the Middle East. Generating $1.5 million in revenues last year, it also provides custom-made orders with the option to choose from over 100 different colors, marbles and stones sourced from Italy, Spain, Turkey, China, Lebanon and Syria. Their customization offer was put to the test by the order of Saudi Oger, the Hariri family’s construction company, for a 200-square-meter work made up of 16 different pieces, chief executive Taline