Material guide
What each family actually does on a job — where it performs, where it fails, and what a client should be told before they sign off on it. Written for people who have to specify it, not sell it.
Specifying
Bookmatching
Two consecutive slabs opened like a book to mirror the vein. How it works, when it works, and what to reserve.
Porcelain
Concrete Look Porcelain
The industrial ground plane without the pour. Uniform, dimensionally stable, and specified across large commercial floors.
Marble Look Porcelain
Through-body porcelain printed and structured to read as marble. The specification that solves wet areas, façades and floor runs marble cannot take.
Natural Stone
Granite
Igneous, dense and hard-wearing. The default answer when a surface has to take heat, weather and traffic without ceremony.
Limestone
Sedimentary, calm and matte. Specified when a project wants stone to read as a quiet ground rather than a feature.
Marble
Metamorphosed limestone. Specified for its veining, and worth specifying honestly — it patinas, and clients should be told so before it does.
Onyx
Translucent, banded and structurally fragile. A feature material, backlit more often than not, and never a working surface.
Precious Stones
Semi-precious slabs — agate, amethyst, petrified wood, quartz crystal. Sold by the piece, specified by the feature.
Quartzite
Metamorphosed sandstone — marble's look with granite's durability. The stone most often specified once a client understands what marble does in a working kitchen.
Engineered Stone
Quartz (Engineered)
A manufactured surface — roughly 90% ground quartz bound in polymer resin. Specified when a job needs repeatability rather than uniqueness.
Terrazzo
Stone chip set in a binder and ground flat. An engineered surface with a five-hundred-year history and a current moment.
Special Surfaces
Special Surfaces
Fabricated stone products rather than raw slab — pool, sanitary, fireplace, and bathroom and kitchen furnishings.
These pages are hand-written stand-ins. The ~40 pages of copy on the existing Wix site have not been extracted yet; when they are, they land in the same directory and replace these file for file.