Marble
Bianco Carrara
The best-known Italian marble in the world: a pearl-white ground crossed by fine, evenly spaced grey veins.
Marble · Italy
Calacatta
A warm white ground with broad gold, taupe and grey veining: the marble most in demand in contemporary design.
Bedroom: book-matched wall behind the bed, two slabs opened like a book, polished finish
- Origin
- Apuan Alps: Carrara (MS), Vagli and Stazzema (LU)
- Selections
- 8 selections · up to 300 × 180 cm
- Finishes
- 2 surface finishes
- Thickness
- 2 and 3 cm, others on request
The slabs
Size and figure, selection by selection
Eight selections of the same Apuan family, photographed in the same setting at the same scale, ordered from the one that veins least to the one that veins most. With Calacatta the size is not the variable — the Apuan block gives slabs of around 300 × 170 cm — and neither is the ground colour, a warm white in all eight. What changes, and what sets the price, is how much stone moves across that ground.
Calacatta Classico
300 × 170 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The most restrained reading of the family: a warm white ground crossed by fine, well-spaced grey veins with few golden accents. This is the Calacatta to choose when the surface is large and the figure must not take over.
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Calacatta Luccicoso
300 × 170 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The brightest: an almost white ground crossed diagonally by delicate, almost transparent grey and gold veins. The trade also calls it Calacatta Light, and it is the choice for anyone who wants the warmth of Calacatta without the strong figure.
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Calacatta Michelangelo
290 × 165 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A very white, even ground crossed by a very fine net of dove-grey veins and the occasional golden thread. It comes from the Barattini quarry at Carrara — the one Michelangelo drew his sculpture marble from — and is also sold as Statuario Michelangelo. The quarry works intermittently: availability is confirmed lot by lot.
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Calacatta Vagli
300 × 180 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A white ground with broad, slanting veins that run from grey to gold. Quarried at Vagli di Sotto in the Garfagnana, it is the variety that holds warm and cool tones in the same slab — which is why it sits equally well against pale timber and dark metal.
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Calacatta Macchia Vecchia
310 × 170 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The big figure: across the pale ground run cloudings from light yellow to brown, with passages that turn at times towards green and violet. This is the variety for open-book laying, where two consecutive slabs open the pattern like a book.
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Calacatta Picasso
300 × 170 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A white ground broken by a dark grey breccia that opens into broad islands, with golden and rust filaments in the fractures. Also found as Calacatta Green Picasso, it is the grade that sits between Macchia Vecchia and Corchia: the figure of the one with the warmth of the other.
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Calacatta Corchia
300 × 180 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The greyest of them: across the white ground opens a brecciated net of dark grey and greenish veins, with larger compact islands between them. It is quarried on Monte Corchia at Stazzema, where it comes out alongside Arabescato — and the figure is a close relative.
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Calacatta Viola
300 × 170 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
The most recognisable of them all: a white ground broken by a violet and burgundy breccia, with golden filaments in the fractures. It is a fragile material that leaves the sawmill resined and mesh-backed: it is fabricated with care and chosen for a single statement piece, not for a large area.
Request this selection: Calacatta ViolaAbout the stone
Calacatta is not a marble: it is a family of marbles from the Apuan Alps, told apart from Carrara by its warmer ground and its broad, dramatic veining. Each selection carries the name of the quarry it comes from — Vagli in the Garfagnana, Corchia and Viola at Stazzema, Michelangelo at Carrara — and between one and the next everything changes except the ground: how much grey, how much gold, how much movement. It is the marble of the book-match, two consecutive slabs opened like a book so the figure develops symmetrically. One thing is worth knowing before you buy: «Calacatta» names a quarry area and is not a protected designation, which is why the name also travels on quartz, porcelain and sintered stone that merely imitate Apuan marble. The eight selections below are block marble, and the quarry is stated.
Available finishes
PolishedHoned
How the finish changes the stone
Recommended uses
- Kitchen worktops
- Wall cladding
- Bathrooms and basins
- Furniture and objects
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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See also
Related materials
Same category or similar colour: worth comparing before you decide.
Marble
Statuario
A pure white ground with bold, dramatic grey veining: the marble of classical statuary.
Marble
Arabescato
Veins interlacing like an arabesque: white and grey from the Apuan Alps, dark grey and red from the Orobic Alps.