As you wander in, bemused and wonderstruck, you enter a courtyard topped by a high gallery. The floor is patterned with diamond shapes and multi-colored marbles, with statues of men and women in togas carved out of stone. Real birds -- peacocks, scarlet macaws from Burma, and albino mynahs from Bihar look not in the least inconguous in thse surroundings.

The rooms themselves are filled with objects d'art from South East Asia and Europe: including even a plaster Queen Victoria and an oak one. And in keeping with the name of the place, there is marble -- ninety varieties of it shipped by the ton from all over the world.