I visited Carrara this week with Commercial Stone Limited to select marble for a project in Central London. The two senior in house architects from the Development company also attended with a very specific idea as to what they wanted.

This week I visited a factory in Rapolano, Tuscany to inspect slabs for a small but important reception area in the Gherkin. The day started slowly making our way to Rapolano using the old road from Lucignano where we had stayed the previous night. With two level crossings we spent for what  seemed like most of the morning sitting waiting for the trains to pass and the barrier let us by. We got to there eventually and proceeded to start shifting the slabs and bundles to allow us to see the specific features of the blocks available.

This week the Shell Gris Honed Marble tiles arrived in London to be checked and sent onwards to Italy to be assembled onto a raised access flooring system before being returned to UK and installed in the Qatar Lounge at Heathrow T4.