The Getty Center is Richard Meier's 1997 hilltop museum in Los Angeles, clad in 16,000 tonnes of cleft-cut Italian travertine split rather than sawn. Each block reveals fossilized leaves and gas-bubble voids in stone up to 80,000 years old. This system reads that surface literally: a honeyed, mid-value stone plane divided by cool warm-gray joint lines on a strict 30-inch modular grid — matte, daylit, institutional, and deliberately never cream or paper-white.