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Pink Marble
Vintage fashion brings pink marble into our homes. Pink is the quintessential symbol of calm, delicacy and positivity.
Pink marble can be put to a variety of uses, and is widely used in areas for resting in. On the other hand, it is ideal for spaces with little luminosity.
Sometimes, neutral colours, such as white or grey, can be the perfect complement to pink, creating soft and elegant ambiences. If we are looking for stronger options, green and brown can provide this original contrast.
Types of Pink Marble
Rosa Portugués
Rosa Portugués is possibly the best-known and most widely-used Pink Marble.
Nature offers us different shades, among which very subtle, orangey or greyish pinks stand out. The appearance of grey and brown streaks endows Rosa Portugués with a unique beauty. However, the material can be found without any streaks at all.
Rosa Zarci
Rosa Zarci marble is a soft, even understated, shade of pink. This natural stone may include gentle, blurry streaks, displaying a very uniform material.
Rosa Zarci is perfect for matching with other marbles to produce mosaics, as well as staircases.
Rosa Levante
Rosa Levante is a subtle pink-coloured marble in which the appearance of fossils predominates. Rosa Levante is mainly sourced from Zarzilla de Ramos, in Lorca (Murcia – Spain).
This marble is also known as Crema Levante or Rosa Girona (Spain).
Turkish Marble
Marble from Turkey may not have the same cache as, say, Italian marble. But if you’re looking for a beautiful, quality marble product at better value, there are some Turkish selections you may want to consider.
Did you know that Turkey is a leading supplier of the world’s marble and travertine? Just like Italy, Turkey has a rich history of stone quarrying. The country provided material for statues and monuments for even the ancient Greeks and Romans. Natural stone has been one of Turkey’s main exports for thousands of years, and there is still plenty to be found.
According to the Turkish government, more than 30-percent of the world’s reserves of marble are in Turkey. Most of it comes from an area west of the 31st Parallel and south of Istanbul. White and travertine are the best-known natural stone products, but the country is a source of granite, limestone, and onyx too.
Turkey has close to 5,000 natural stone quarries and approximately 1,750 workshops and factories located there. The country yields more than 250 different types of marble and travertine, shipping it to more than 130 countries around the world.
One of the top-selling Turkish products here at Marble and Granite, Inc. is Turkish Carrara. Not to be confused with Italian Carrara Marble, it’s a white marble with more of a yellowish hue than the pure white Italian version. But it’s a choice that gives the same crisp, clean look of white marble at a fraction of the price.
Here are a few other Turkish products you’ll see here at Marble and Granite, Inc:
Italian Marble
Perhaps the most famous of the marbles is from the Carrara region of Italy. Used by Michelangelo, Donatello and Canova in their sculptures, Carrara marble was always chosen for its purity and durability. Calacatta and Statuario, in all their different forms (and there are many of them), are more of the Italian marbles from this region, similarly admired for their white colour. (By the way, “Carrera” is a Porsche and “Carrara” is the Italian marble.)
In our experience, Italy has many of the best marbles in the world, having stood the test of time in some of the most famous places in the world. For example, in the displays at the Vatican Museum, the Italian marble is of exceptional quality.
Italian marble has earned its reputation primarily because the quarries in Italy have access to some of the best raw material in the world. Secondly, Italian quarries have set the highest standards for quality control and everything from selecting and cutting the blocks to packaging and shipping is done with precision.
So that you can better understand where to use Italian marble in your home, it helps to learn about how it is formed.
Marble has also been known as “crystallized limestone” because this is exactly how it is formed. When the sedimentary rock (limestone) is subject to a high temperature and immense pressure, large crystals form and bind together to create the metamorphic rock, marble. In marble however, we do not see the fossils in the same way that we would in limestone as the heat needed to form the crystals means that most of the impurities (fossils) are destroyed. So you are left with large sections of white marble with a varying degree of coloured ‘veins’ running through it which depends on the type of minerals present in the rock; this naturally varies depending on the original location of the marble, giving a uniqueness to each and every one.
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