White Carrara statuary marble: in the heart of Italian excellence

The Bianco Statuario Carrara marble is one of the finest marbles in the world. Few materials, in fact, can compete with its transparent shine and its incredibly compact structure.

Among the main types of this material there are the White Statuario Venato Marble, which has veins on gray tones of various sizes, and the Extra Statuario White Marble on which the veins are extremely thin and not very visible. Both these qualities are very valuable even if the second truly represents a unicum of aesthetic perfection and grandeur.

Many Italian artists of all times have created true masterpieces with statuary: think for example of Canova's Graces and Cupid and Psyche without forgetting Michelangelo's David, entirely carved in a single block. Today, this material is used to express luxury and magnificence especially for roofs and furnishing elements such as fireplaces, sculptures and special design creations.

Calacatta Carrara marble

Calacatta is one of the most precious Italian marbles and appreciated above all for projects of great prestige and for extremely refined furnishing elements. Extracted from the quarries of Carrara, this marble has been used since the Renaissance in the most exclusive projects for its delicate magnificence and for the ability to convey with extreme elegance the most refined aesthetic luxury.

The background of Calacatta marble is crystalline white. Depending on the color of the veins, however, we can have various types: superb is the Calacatta Caldia on tones of mint green without forgetting the Calacatta Crema on light beige tones tending to ivory.

Unique, highly sought after and splendid in its enigmatic transparencies and in the brilliance of its surface is then the Calacatta Oro that gives elegant yellow-gold veins that literally 'shine' on the white surface of the base.

The warm tones of Sicilian Jasper

The Jasper of Sicily is extracted in the quarries of the mountains of Custonaci, in the province of Trapani. Its color is unpredictable and alternates various colors ranging from dark red to ocher yellow, with rare white intrusions.

The softness of the colors gives a wonderful feeling of warmth and comfort and that is why jasper is mainly used for luxury interior coverings and decorations.

Among the most expensive stones in the world, jasper has always been sought after by princes and rulers who wanted it for their churches, palaces and mausoleums. To remember is its use in the splendid works of art of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, a reality founded by Ferdinando I de 'Medici in 1588 as an artistic manufacture for the processing of furniture in semi-precious stones and never surpassed for finesse of workmanship and creativity in the use of precious materials.

Brèche du Bénou, pride of France

Marble French with an important design, the Brèche du Benou has a multicolored breccia structure in shades of intense yellow and green, up to pink. This is a very precious marble and has always been used for important achievements such as the decorations of the Palace of Versailles (especially for the splendid fireplaces) and the interiors of famous historic buildings throughout Europe. Its dynamic polychromy is a real piece of furniture and is declined with charm in both traditional and modern environments.

The White Thassos Extra marble of Greece

Bianco Thassos Extra marble is a particularly valuable material that comes from Greece. Its merit is to have a very fine grain, which gives it a particular crystalline affection, and an absolute white background that has neither veins nor intrusions. The plates are usually small in size and are carefully selected according to their most candid color. Given the intrinsic beauty of the material, the most suitable processing is polishing that makes it incredibly shiny and suitable to enhance any realization.

Usually, Bianco Thassos Extra marble is used for interiors, decorative items and luxury coatings. Its superb whiteness is often enhanced by the combination with other darker marbles such as Nero del Belgio, Portoro or Botticino marble.

Absolute chromaticism: Nero marble from Belgium

Elegance: this is the most correct and exhaustive definition to describe this beautiful marble that comes from Belgium and offers an intense black background on which a slight bright white dot stands out. This detail gives the material an original and unconventional appearance, making it perfect in any declination dedicated both to interior design – such as stairs, floors and countertops – and for outdoor design. As for the finishes, polishing is the most recommended and used since it is particularly suitable to highlight the aesthetic qualities of this natural stone absolutely exclusive in its kind.

Nero

From Italy, Portoro Marble or Portovenere Marble

A precious marble, starting from the few quarries in the province of La Spezia that extract it and then continue with the difficulties related to the protection of the local landscape and nature that require a particularly complicated extraction.

The Italian Nero Portoro is a beautiful marble, characterized by an intense and brilliant black with golden veins alternating with whitish areas of variable size. In his palette we find eight variations ranging from yellow veins 'with wide spot' to those 'with fine spots' up to Black and White of La Spezia where the white spot is predominant on the gray-black background.

A great lover of Nero Portoro was Cosimo I De Medici who in his Florence of the sixteenth century had some of the most grandiose works of art of the Italian Renaissance made in this natural stone.

Emotions in natural stone: Amazonite granite

Looking at a slab of Amazonite, a precious granite from Brazil, it seems to be in front of a contemporary work of art: its incredibly lively structure, in fact, creates unexpected suggestions that come to life through the thousand colors on shades of emerald and blue. Amazonite really has the power to enchant those who stop to observe it and its value reinforces its magic.

In luxury interior design, this material is mainly used as a coating with the open stain finish inside small spaces, niches and especially in showers to reinforce the effect en plen air. Not being resistant to frost, Amazonite is hardly used for outdoor realizations.

The colors of the sea revived by Sodalite Blu

An extremely rare and precious stone: blue sodalite is an intense material that amazes with its variegated colors ranging from sky blue to cobalt up to the sparkling shades of lapis lazuli. Beautiful and very precious are also its blocks of uniform color, without spots or veins, which give a disruptive perfection as fairy in an incredible depth of color.

This natural stone has established itself in the design of luxury environments where it is chosen for interior cladding and highly decorative elements such as fireplaces, niches and columns. Thanks to the particularly relaxing colors, the blue Soldalite is also highly sought after for the creation of wet areas such as bathrooms, spas and swimming pools.