Focus Materials

Marinace: the riverbed of stone

Marinace Marinace belongs to the category of Brazilian granites. Depending on the type of Marinace, thousands of petrified pebbles in every size and colour are highlighted on a homogenously coloured background. 

Donatello: marble or granite?

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Some time ago, we talked about marble that is not exactly marble and about granite that is not really granite. Donatello belongs to this category ...

Pierre Blue

pierre bleue It’s time to discover more about the wonderful photo shapes that were exhibited during the MeetUp 2019: was it honey comb? Human generated geometry? Or perhaps...

Black granite: treatments and typologies

Black granite: treatments and typologies Today we’d like to present you black granites from our catalogue, to show you their physical characteristics and to recommend you the treatments which highlight the material’s surface...

Taj Mahal: the quartzite of your dreams

Taj Mahal: the quartzite of your dreams Taj Mahal is named after one of the most important monuments and world heritage of India, but this fantastic material, comes from Brazil and is one of those materials that cannot be easily classified.   

Beole

Beole The discovery of marble and traditional natural stones: the Beola!

 

 

Travertine is again produced by Marmi Rossi

Travertino Classico Romano As mentioned, a few months ago, Marmi Rossi decided to re-integrate marble in the production line and that includes travertine, a material from ancient times,  which looks like marble but that’s not how it is...

Rain Forest marble: the snakeskin

Verde Guatemala, Rain Forest Green and Rain Forest Brown We’ve been impressed by the beautiful and spectacular material from India, called Rain Forrest, and especially by these two colours: Rain Forest Green and Rain Forest Brown.

Granite: meeting History

ancient granite working Granite owes its name to its particular granulation, whereby the grains can be small or medium-size. Therefore the Latin word granum has the meaning of granulous.

Porphyry Valcamonica

min porfido-viola-valcamonica Porphyry Valcamonica is one of the various Italian porphyry already known by the Egyptians who used it to build the pyramids.

Azul imperial

min Azul miniatura The surprising quartzite.
There are very impressive and special materials in nature (quartzite, granite, and marble).
In this article, we’d like to talk about the formation and application of two materials that originally come from the same natural stone: Azul Imperiale and Azul Macaubas.