In addition to the Petra Alba Travertine specified and already supplied to One Blackfriars we were asked to also assist in procuring 10,000sqm of Tundra Blue Limestone in 20mm of various sizes and 1000sqm of 12mm tiles.
A recent trip to Castelon, Spain was to inspect a small order but important as the first order we have for our new black limestone called Anthracite.
Last week we visited the Petra Alba quarry in Rapolano, Tuscany to inspect blocks and sawn slabs for our Baku project prior to being shipped to Verona to be finished.
This week we visited Verona to inspect the first few containers of our PETRA ALBA Travertine being loaded and shipped to Baku to be used as column cladding and flooring in the new Trump Tower. Approximately 3000sqm of 2cm (floor) and 3cm (wall) have to be prepared and shipped in just 6 weeks.
The Atlantic Lavastone continues to gain popularity with its unique aesthetic and incredible technical characteristics.
Alpine White is proving to be popular. This stone has the light grey aesthetic with spidery white veins of varying intensity and some background colour variation too to keep it interesting. Exceptionally hard it can be used in very commercial applications.
This is a very large piece of stone, a 3000 ton slice of Silver Travertine cut and falling from the quarry face. Here is a new offering, a new Silver from a supplier in Tuscany. The images show the incredible images of the quarry where a huge 3000 ton slice is cut and tipped over using air bags that are wedged behind the stone and inflated.
Not long ago I was asked to find a marble I was not familiar with, Arabescato Orobico. It was to be for bar tops and wall cladding in the The Shangri La Hotel located in The Shard. Unlike the material more commonly known as Arabescato (featured in the product section on this site) the Orobico (grey version – there is a Rosso too) is a anthracite/blue silvery grey with some mustard/brown aspects all mixed up with the most incredible movement and markings.
During our trip to the stone Show in Verona this week we popped into the factory charged with cutting our blocks of Atlantic when they arrive from the quarry. The factory we use has the new type of gang saw that uses diamond wires instead of the traditional diamond toothed blades. These gang saws can cut a block of Atlantic in just a few hours instead of the 5-6 days the olds saws could manage.
We have liked and sold the Beaulieu limestone for many years. Light and creamy in colour with occasional fossils and veins; it has that quintessential limestone appearance.
Being a very hard and close grained limestone it is suitable for all internal applications from a bathroom wall to shopping centre floor. Not only do we have the relevant BS EN test data for you, Beaulieu has an incredible project history spanning many years. A great reference can be found in the Pompidou Centre where 4000sqm was installed in the Forum Des Halles in 1972. More recently we supplied Park’ N Shop, Hong Kong and the MOD building here in London.
As well as all this great history, the stone is quarried and cut less than 400 miles away from London, so very environmentally friendly for projects here in the Capital.