A pink marble from Norway with small white ovules forming extremely varied and colorful patterns. Always well known for his softness as far back as the times of Greek and Roman sculptors and architects, it has become a cultural symbol of tradition and refined taste over time. Main quarry: Furuli area, Norway.
A fine web of light with an illusion of three dimensionality. The glitter depicts an elegant play of shadows and holographic effects. Inside the white body of the stone, there is a surprising preciousness of blue and black opal. Main quarries: Canada, Australia, Madagascar, Mexico, Scandinavia, Russia and the USA.
Sophisticated with glassy transparency in purple shades. A feminine gemstone par excellence and a traditional symbol of virginity whose name comes from the myth of Bacchus, the ancient god of wine who fell in love with a beautiful nymph of Diana named Amethyst. To protect her from Bacchus, Diana transformed Amethyst into a transparent glass, on which Bacchus poured out a glass of red wine in anger. Main quarries: Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, India, Russia, Mexico, USA and Madagascar.
Also called “Amazon stone” it takes its name from that of the Amazon River, from which it was obtained and treasured by the people of pre-Columbian South and Central America, as far back as the 10th century BC. It is a green variety of microcline feldspar and a mineral of very limited occurrence. It is usually pale green but can sometimes be blue-green, turquoise or yellow-green, with white streaks too. Main quarries: Brasil, Colorado (where it is also called Colorado Jade, because of its resemblance to jade, Australia, Madagascar.
A very fine Italian marble, exclusively extracted in the village of Camerata Cornello, near Bergamo. The (Arabescato) Grigio Orobico is a sedimentary arenaceous lithotype textured with fine-grained dark or light grey. Thanks to brilliant white or even golden veins, this wild pattern makes this marble definitely unique and exclusively italian.
Resolute contrasts of pure white and jet black. The boldness of the irregular monochromatic mottling of marmor celticum was already widely appreciated in the Roman and Byzantine periods. And it was with this precious marble that some of the world’s most monumental architecture was created: from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul to the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, from Westminster Abbey to St. Peter’s, from the salons of Versailles to the halls of the Invalides. Main quarry: Aubert, France.