Marble
Bianco Carrara
The best-known Italian marble in the world: a pearl-white ground crossed by fine, evenly spaced grey veins.
Marble · Italy
Arabescato
Veins interlacing like an arabesque: white and grey from the Apuan Alps, dark grey and red from the Orobic Alps.
Kitchen: solid stone island and full-height splashback, honed finish
- Origin
- Apuan Alps (LU) and Val Brembana (BG)
- Selections
- 5 selections · up to 320 × 180 cm
- Finishes
- 3 surface finishes
- Thickness
- 2 and 3 cm, others on request
The slabs
Size and figure, selection by selection
Five selections photographed in the same setting at the same scale: first the three Apuan ones, from the sparsest to the densest, then the two from the Orobic Alps. Sizes are those typical of the lots the quarries put on the market, and they change from quarry to quarry: the Cervaiole, from a quarry at 1,200 metres with small-to-medium blocks, gives shorter slabs than Vagli. The white ground of the three Apuan selections is the same: it is the figure on top that changes.
Arabescato Vagli
320 × 180 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The sparsest of the three Apuan selections: a bright white ground with broad, slanting dove-grey veins and wide clean fields between them. It is quarried at Vagli di Sotto in the Garfagnana, and gives the largest slabs of the family.
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Arabescato Cervaiole
290 × 180 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A cool white ground run through by a dense net of fine grey veins. It is quarried on Monte Altissimo above Seravezza, at around 1,200 metres, and when a block comes out especially clean it is sold as Statuario Altissimo. Small-to-medium blocks and limited availability: check the lot before designing around it.
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Arabescato Corchia
300 × 160 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The textbook Arabescato: a brecciated net of dark grey veins that closes the white ground into islands and lenses. It is quarried on Monte Corchia at Stazzema; in the trade the names get mixed up, and the same figure also travels as Arabescato Carrara or Faniello.
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Arabescato Orobico Grigio
315 × 170 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
An anthracite-grey ground, almost black, crossed by white and pale grey veins and here and there by golden threads. It is not Apuan: it is quarried at Camerata Cornello in the Val Brembana (BG), and it is a different stone from the white Arabescato — it shares the figure, not the quarry.
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Arabescato Orobico Rosso
310 × 185 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A vivid red in wavy bands, with white, burgundy and pale grey veins. It is quarried at San Giovanni Bianco in the Val Brembana (BG). It is the most recognisable and the most theatrical Arabescato: chosen for a feature wall or a single statement piece.
Request this selection: Arabescato Orobico RossoAbout the stone
«Arabescato» is a figure before it is a quarry: the web of veins interlacing across the ground like an arabesque. In the Apuan Alps three quarries in the province of Lucca give it — Vagli in the Garfagnana, the Cervaiole on Monte Altissimo, Monte Corchia at Stazzema — and it is a white marble with grey veining: the same mountains give Calacatta, and the difference lies in the ground, cooler, and the veining, denser and more interlaced. In the Val Brembana, in the Orobic Alps, the same name means another stone: Arabescato Orobico, anthracite grey or vivid red, crossed by white veins. Every slab carries its own figure and is chosen by eye on the block. The name is not protected: there are porcelain and sintered «Arabescato Corchia» and «Arabescato Orobico» slabs that merely imitate the marble. The ones below are quarried stone.
Available finishes
PolishedHonedBrushed
How the finish changes the stone
Recommended uses
- Wall cladding
- Bathrooms and basins
- Kitchen worktops
- Furniture and objects
- Stairs and thresholds
Installed
How it behaves once laid
Stone changes with the surface it covers: on a continuous wall the figure reads in full, on a floor you walk across it. These are reference settings.
Reference renderings, not Eurostone supplies: they show the material in place, not a completed project.
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Material selection, processing placed with the workshop equipped for that finish, packing on A-frames or in sea crates, customs documentation and shipping. One point of contact, even ten thousand kilometres away. We reply within 24 working hours.
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Related materials
Same category or similar colour: worth comparing before you decide.
