Focus Materials

Marinace belongs to the category of Brazilian granites. Depending on the type of Marinace, thousands of petrified pebbles in every size and colour are highlighted on a homogenously coloured background. 

Patagonia is a rare Brazilian semi-precious granite made of various natural materials that have been pressed together by natural forces.

Breccia Imperiale is a natural stone from Brazil.
This material, also known as Amarula, is suitable for numerous applications thanks to its cloudy structure and extremely resistance.

An important collaboration with the German company Carl Zeiss, to whom we gave some marble and granite pieces, which they analysed in thin sections under their microscope Axioscan 7 Geo…

Nero Impala, also known as Nero Africa, is another popular black granite, which you can find in our warehouse.

Our beloved Verona has always been a place of art, from the architectural structures to the paintings, the frescoes and the marble sculptures, each street in the city tells a piece of history.

Natural stone has been used in many ways over thousands of years, for building constructions as well as for artworks.

Brazil, this ancient and wonderful country overseas, is the nation from where various natural stones with amazing aesthetic characteristics and different compositions originate, is where Infinity comes from.

Marmomac 2021 offered the perfect opportunity to present two materials that have only recently arrived in our warehouse: Diorite Green and Donatello...

Imagine the bottom of an ocean with an active underwater volcano...

Some time ago, we talked about marble that is not exactly marble and about granite that is not really granite. Donatello belongs to this category ...

Quartzite is a metamorphic rock that in far past geological ages, had been exposed to strong pressure and high temperatures which completely changed its chemical and physical properties and...

This is about pegmatite: an extraordinary and very striking rock that many refer to as quartzite, although this natural stone, thanks to its morphological composition, is more like granite...

Given the lines, patterns and stripes on marble and granite surfaces, we are often asked: “Is this a fossil?”...

Also know as Virginia Mist or American Black, this homogeneous granite with medium-sized grains comes from Pocahontas’ lands...

It’s time to discover more about the wonderful photo shapes that were exhibited during the MeetUp 2019: was it honey comb? Human generated geometry? Or perhaps...

Quartz and quartzite, discover the differences, it’s worth not to confuse these two materials.

The important role of  Marmi Rossi in the manufacturing process. 

The elegant gray marble that characterized the Florentine Renaissance.

Here some information about which material fits best and how marble differs from granite.

Our company receives daily requests of how to choose marble or granite. Let’s have a closer look at the selection criteria for natural stone.

Marble and Verona have been paired for centuries and even for thousands of years. We are speaking about marble, because every lime stone that can be polished, is generally called...

On a sunny day you may see the granite walls and the big entry staircase in our new office building sparkle and glitter. On closer examination the visitor will realize in amazement that…  

The finishing Eco Antik arises from two 'basic' methods: flaming and brushing. Using both of these mere mechanical finishing methods, you get an environmentally compatible...

Today we’d like to present you black granites from our catalogue, to show you their physical characteristics and to recommend you the treatments which highlight the material’s surface...

“Black will never go out of fashion” – one could say – and that statement should also be applied for granite: black granite is coming back or rather...

Taj Mahal is named after one of the most important monuments and world heritage of India, but this fantastic material, comes from Brazil and is one of those materials that cannot be easily classified.   

If you have marble or granite in your home, you should be interested in, because there are one or two important differences...

The discovery of marble and traditional natural stones: the Beola!

The most famous Spanish marbles are Nero Marquina, Emperador Dark and Crema Marfil which are now available in our store.    

It’s only fair to say that the Carrara Marble is not just any marble, but it is the epitome of  ‘THE” marble. The most famous sculptors have worked with this material...

As mentioned, a few months ago, Marmi Rossi decided to re-integrate marble in the production line and that includes travertine, a material from ancient times,  which looks like marble but that’s not how it is...

We’ve been impressed by the beautiful and spectacular material from India, called Rain Forrest, and especially by these two colours: Rain Forest Green and Rain Forest Brown.

A new kind of processing to enhance the granite!  

Granite owes its name to its particular granulation, whereby the grains can be small or medium-size. Therefore the Latin word granum has the meaning of granulous.

A heart of granite: the pyramids

Porphyry Valcamonica is one of the various Italian porphyry already known by the Egyptians who used it to build the pyramids.

Nero Zimbabwe is more a gabbro than a granite. 

The surprising quartzite.
There are very impressive and special materials in nature (quartzite, granite, and marble).
In this article, we’d like to talk about the formation and application of two materials that originally come from the same natural stone: Azul Imperiale and Azul Macaubas.