At the heart of most luxury homes is the considered use of natural stone. Natural stone features in luxury homes in myriad forms, most commonly found are marbles, granites, sandstone and travertines. Quartzites are also becoming increasingly popular choices and clients searching for something more special and at the very top-end and drawn to gemstone and precious stones.
Selecting natural stones
Our designers devote considerable time to understanding and sourcing natural stone in all its forms. We often travel to quarries and manufacturing facilities to select and reserve blocks from the source of the stone for specific projects. This ensures that we have exclusive use of sufficient quantity of a material with the exact features and characters the design demands.
Stone varies massively, and small, shippable samples can never show the full character of a material, especially one that is full of distinctive features, veins and swirling colours such as a Brèche De Vendôme marble or Italian Calacatta - a marble found in a huge range of qualities and tones. That's why we insist on seeing every stone before it is processed and shipped, ensuring that our client's vision and expectation is fully realised.
