{"id":756409,"date":"2026-04-27T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/756409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:39:22","slug":"please-touch-museum-marble-lives-on-in-philadelphia-eateries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/756409\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Touch Museum marble lives on in Philadelphia eateries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the marble slabs were too damaged to be reset in Memorial Hall, and they were diverted into the salvage market. They are now reappearing in Philadelphia restaurants and hotels, including The Bread Room, the forthcoming bar that will replace the old Palm Restaurant in the Bellevue Hotel, and the upcoming redesign of Kampar, the James Beard-nominated Malaysian restaurant damaged by fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cStone doesn\u2019t go bad,\u201d said Brian Bendel, of Marguerite Rodgers Interior Design. \u201cIt always kills me to see people tear stone out and throw it away. There\u2019s nothing wrong with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bendel designed The Bread Room\u2019s aesthetic of repurposed fixtures and distressed furniture. He discovered the Memorial Hall marble slabs in Beaty American, the now-closed architectural salvage shop in Kensington run by Bob Beaty.<\/p>\n

\"aA marble slab from the Please Touch Museum that Brian Bendel, of Marguerite Rodgers Interior Design, discovered at the Beaty American architectural salvage shop in Kensington, was later used in Ellen Yin\u2019s The Bread Room cafe. (Photo provided by Brian Bendel)<\/p>\n

When it came to finishing the marble-topped counters, Bendel did not buff out foot traffic marks, keeping the slabs\u2019 telltale scratches in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feeling we were trying to invoke was to have a space that felt like it was always there as part of Philadelphia,\u201d he said. \u201cThat sense of craftsmanship and things that are local.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the marble slabs were too damaged to be reset in Memorial Hall, and they were diverted…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":756410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,182743,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-756409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-please-touch-museum","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116476247138358353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}