Marble
Bianco Carrara
The best-known Italian marble in the world: a pearl-white ground crossed by fine, evenly spaced grey veins.
Quartzite · International
Brazilian Quartzites
The look of marble with the hardness of granite: from Taj Mahal white to Azul Macaubas blue, fifty-four quartzites from Brazil.
Bar: backlit counter in Patagonia quartzite
- Origin
- Brazil: Bahia, Minas Gerais, Ceará, Espírito Santo
- Selections
- 54 selections · up to 345 × 199 cm
- Finishes
- 4 surface finishes
- Thickness
- 2 and 3 cm, others on request
The slabs
Size and figure, selection by selection
Fifty-four quartzites, grouped by colour and photographed in the same setting at the same scale. The sizes are the median of real lots on the market, and quartzite slabs are large: almost all between 3.0 and 3.4 metres long by 1.9 to 2 high. Every face is the photograph of a real slab from a lot on the market: at quotation stage the slabs are chosen from the lot available.
White
The most requested for kitchen worktops and bathrooms: the look of a pale marble, without the fear of lemon juice and vinegar.
White Macaubas
338 × 193 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A bright white crossed by long, almost parallel grey and blue-grey lines, some bolder, with the odd small offset where a line steps sideways. It comes from the Macaúbas area of Bahia: the same formation as Azul Macaubas, without the dumortierite that turns that one blue. A true quartzite, hard and low in porosity: a safe choice for kitchen worktops.
Request this selection: White Macaubas
Calacatta Macaubas
330 × 193 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A warm white ground veiled with beige, crossed diagonally by a few broken, almost parallel dark grey veins with finer hairlines between them. It is the quartzite chosen for the look of a Calacatta without its fragility: it comes from Bahia, from the same area as the other Macaubas stones.
Request this selection: Calacatta Macaubas
Mont Blanc
321 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A cloudy milk white with a few wavy light grey and pale gold threads: the calmest of the white quartzites. It is quarried in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, at about 1,200 metres. Some selections carry a dolomitic component and react to acids: the lot being bought should be checked with the glass and vinegar test.
Request this selection: Mont Blanc
Bianco Superiore
318 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A cool, deep white, almost translucent, crossed horizontally by bands of milky white quartz and a few grey and grey-green veins that branch and fade. Strong contrast but airy, for islands and book-matched walls.
Request this selection: Bianco Superiore
Sea Pearl
330 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A pearl grey with a mother-of-pearl sheen and a dense, wavy lineation in grey, grey-green and taupe, broken by a few darker threads. Greyer and softer than White Macaubas, with which it shares the linear movement: some price lists treat it as one of its selections.
Request this selection: Sea Pearl
Dumont
320 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A very light, cool grey-white crossed diagonally by long fine grey veins and parallel lines, with slightly lighter and darker zones. A quiet quartzite for large surfaces: continuous walls, islands, full-height bathrooms.
Request this selection: Dumont
Denali
330 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A light grey with a dense web of diagonal grey and taupe lines, like layered sediment, cut at an angle by a few white and grey fractures. It has an architectural character: book-matched, the lines meet and draw chevrons.
Request this selection: Denali
Fantasy Lux
328 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A bright white with a cream undertone, broken by dramatic seams of crushed white quartz outlined by networks of blue-grey and dark grey crackle; the rest of the slab is calm white with a few grey threads. A striking Brazilian quartzite for islands and statement walls.
Request this selection: Fantasy Lux
Calacatta Lux
330 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
An almost pure white, barely veiled with very pale grey-green, with a few fine grey veins and some wavy pale grey lines. Among Brazilian quartzites it is one of the whitest and quietest: for light and no dominant figure.
Request this selection: Calacatta Lux
Cristallo
320 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Almost pure milky white quartz, translucent like ice, with crystal facets and fibres and a network of fine golden orange and rust veins. It lets light through and can be backlit: the material of glowing walls, bar counters and statement basins.
Request this selection: CristalloCream, gold and pink
The Taj Mahal family: ivory and greige grounds, warm veining, translucency. Tones that sit well with wood and brass.
Taj Mahal
325 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A warm, slightly translucent ivory crossed by soft clouds and veins of taupe, greige and caramel flowing diagonally, with a fine web of cream crackle. It is the best-selling Brazilian quartzite in the world: it is quarried at Uruoca, Ceará, in the same district as Perla Venata and Matira. The size is the median of almost three hundred and fifty lots.
Request this selection: Taj Mahal
Perla Santana
325 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Translucent ivory and greige, with wavy horizontal bands of taupe and beige, cream crackle and white streaks. A sister of Taj Mahal from the same district of Ceará, slightly greyer and with a more horizontal figure.
Request this selection: Perla Santana
Naica
302 × 201 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
An off-white and light greige with a pinkish warmth, translucent crystalline areas and light veins of taupe, caramel and grey. A delicate quartzite, among the warmest of the group: it suits pale woods, brass and plaster.
Request this selection: Naica
Madreperola
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A rosy beige and light taupe with swirling veins of caramel, pinkish beige and cream and translucent areas: a mother-of-pearl warmth. It is also traded as Madre Pearl.
Request this selection: Madreperola
Venaria Reale
323 × 203 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A bright white swept by large brushstroke clouds of taupe, coffee and greige running diagonally, with a few dark threads. A painterly Brazilian quartzite, discovered recently: it works well book-matched on walls and islands.
Request this selection: Venaria Reale
Roma Imperiale
331 × 201 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A translucent creamy ivory and blue-grey divided into large irregular cells by a bold network of chocolate, caramel and rust veins, with agate-like concentric rings inside some cells. Graphic and warm; being translucent, it lends itself to backlighting.
Request this selection: Roma Imperiale
Kalahari
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A warm, even cream beige with fine wavy light taupe lines: the pattern of the dunes the wind left in an ancient desert in Bahia. The quietest of the warm quartzites, for floors and large continuous surfaces.
Request this selection: Kalahari
Quarzo Rosa
305 × 185 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Translucent rose quartz with fibrous milky white areas, blush and lilac tones and a few golden-brown hairlines. More than a quartzite it is almost pure crystalline quartz: lit from behind it becomes a glowing pink surface.
Request this selection: Quarzo RosaGrey and black
Dark grounds and moving figures, for islands, feature walls and bathrooms with character.
Fantasy Macaubas
320 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A taupe grey and lilac grey with wavy dark grey-green and white lines folding like contour lines, and a few white quartz patches. It comes from the Macaúbas area of Bahia; it is also traded as Macaubas Fantasy or Blue Fantasy.
Request this selection: Fantasy Macaubas
Mercury
328 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A mid grey in wavy lighter and darker layers, scattered with white quartz flecks and streaks following the layers: a stormy sky. A grey quartzite with character for islands and bathrooms.
Request this selection: Mercury
Brilliant Grey
334 × 193 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A cool silver grey with dense, fine, slightly wavy stripes in light grey, blue-grey and charcoal and a couple of darker bands. Linear and elegant, for contemporary kitchens and walls.
Request this selection: Brilliant Grey
Brilliant Black
318 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
An almost black charcoal with rippling, feather-like silver grey and white lines, like brushed silk. One of the few truly dark quartzites: for a black worktop that fears neither acids nor heat.
Request this selection: Brilliant Black
Mandrake
328 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A black with a lined ground, crossed by streams of white and cream quartz swirling diagonally, edged by grey threads; between them large calm black areas. Strong contrast, for an island or a single wall.
Request this selection: Mandrake
Belvedere
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A deep black with long, thin, straight white and silver grey veins running diagonally, some edged in golden tan, and smoky grey veiling. Elegant and dark, for worktops and walls in a sober key.
Request this selection: Belvedere
Eclipse
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A white crystalline quartzite crossed by two or three broad, sinuous black bands with white and grey lineation inside them. A very strong graphic figure: it is best shown as a whole slab, uncut.
Request this selection: Eclipse
Black Taurus
328 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A deep black with horizontal bands of golden, bronze, cream and white crystals and fine gold lines, like a lava flow. It is sold alongside the quartzites but geologically it is a schist: before choosing it for a worktop, the lot's resistance should be checked.
Request this selection: Black Taurus
Copacabana
320 × 192 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A deep black crossed by large waves of white and silver-grey quartzite that curl like the Rio seafront. Very strong contrast: for islands, counters and feature walls.
Request this selection: Copacabana
Galapagos
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Steel blue, charcoal and black in horizontal layers, with silver and white streaks running like waves. Dark and deep, for bathrooms and atmospheric walls.
Request this selection: GalapagosBlue
Blue is the colour only Brazil gives to a stone: that of Azul Macaubas comes from dumortierite, a mineral found in very few quarries.
Azul Macaubas
325 × 193 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A natural cobalt and cornflower blue in horizontal bands alternating with sky blue and silvery white, with navy hairlines. The colour comes from dumortierite, a borosilicate found in very few quarries: those around Macaúbas, Bahia. One of the rarest and most sought-after stones in the world.
Request this selection: Azul Macaubas
Azul Imperiale
320 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A cool grey-blue in lighter diagonal bands of silver grey, with fine green-grey and teal lines following the bands. It comes from the same region of Bahia as Azul Macaubas, and some price lists treat it as a greyer, quieter selection of it; also traded as Imperial Blue.
Request this selection: Azul Imperiale
Blue Roma
338 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A translucent sky blue divided into large soft cells by a network of golden ochre and rust veins and white crackle, with a few concentric rings. Luminous and precious: raking light reveals its full depth.
Request this selection: Blue Roma
Ijen Blue
333 × 193 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A bluish slate grey with large soft areas of blue-white and deep blue-grey, cut diagonally by sharp veins of rust, gold and dark grey. A painterly quartzite, among the blues most widely stocked in American warehouses.
Request this selection: Ijen Blue
Mystic Blue
330 × 196 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A blue-grey with dramatic cloudy movement of deep blue, silver white and charcoal, broken by white quartz fractures and thin ochre veins. Stormy and dynamic, for islands and walls.
Request this selection: Mystic Blue
Explosion Blue
325 × 200 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Dense, wavy layers of teal, blue-grey, white and charcoal running diagonally, with white quartz streaks. Energetic: a slab to be shown whole.
Request this selection: Explosion Blue
Louise Blue
320 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Layered petrol blue, sky blue and turquoise, crossed by flows of gold, ochre and rust and by white veins: an explosive palette, among the most colourful quartzites. Also traded as Blue Louise.
Request this selection: Louise Blue
Cielo
340 × 201 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A light blue-grey with a dense web of fine white, grey and pale gold crackle, like cracked ice, drifting diagonally. It has a subtle shimmer in raking light.
Request this selection: CieloGreen
From emerald to mint. Avocatus and Amazonite are sold as quartzites but are not strictly so: their notes say so.
Verde Smeralda
316 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A translucent aqua and emerald green, crossed by a grid of horizontal and vertical dark green threads and the odd rust vein. It is quarried in Bahia. Also traded as Emerald Green, Verde Smeraldo or Verde Esmeralda.
Request this selection: Verde Smeralda
Avocatus
300 × 193 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Irregular olive and avocado green zones separated by wavy, densely lined bands of almost black green, with a few white quartz patches. It comes from São Gonçalo do Rio Preto, near Diamantina, Minas Gerais: it is sold as a quartzite, but the producer classes it as a schist, formed from ancient pillow lavas.
Request this selection: Avocatus
Botanic Green
345 × 199 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Emerald and jade green in wavy layers, broken by a large dramatic band of white and pale grey crystalline quartz veined in dark green. Lush: one of the largest slabs in the group.
Request this selection: Botanic Green
Maestro
328 × 201 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Sage and sea green, crossed diagonally by a broad band of flaky white quartz and by fine white lines that follow it. Calm at the sides, dramatic in the middle; book-matched, it draws a spectacular V.
Request this selection: Maestro
Alexandrita
297 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A mint and light sea green crossed by branching black and dark green veins and fractures, with a few white quartz streaks. Fresh and graphic, for bathrooms and walls.
Request this selection: Alexandrita
Verde Gaya
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A light, bright aqua green with white quartz feathers and diagonal dark green and rust veins. Fresh and quieter than the dramatic greens, it also works on large surfaces. Also traded as Gaya Green.
Request this selection: Verde Gaya
Amazonite
320 × 198 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Large turquoise and aqua crystals scattered over a translucent smoky grey quartz ground, with black and white flecks. It is a rock of amazonite (a green feldspar) and quartz, sold within the quartzite family: precious, for furniture surfaces and walls.
Request this selection: AmazoniteBrown, red and multicolour
The exotics: slabs that are already a work of art, to be used whole, book-matched or backlit.
Patagonia
319 × 203 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A crystalline breccia: a cream and ivory ground broken into large plates, with masses of translucent smoky quartz, clusters of black tourmaline and rusty ochre veins. The name has nothing to do with Argentina: it is quarried in Brazil. Largely translucent, it is the exceptional quartzite for backlit counters.
Request this selection: Patagonia
Fusion
320 × 192 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Flowing layers of blue-grey, slate blue, rust orange, copper, gold and cream, with dark threads: the most colourful of the Brazilian quartzites. Several selections are traded: Fusion Blue, Fusion Wow, Fusion Top.
Request this selection: Fusion
Van Gogh
297 × 188 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Folded, swirling layers of dark green-grey, charcoal, cream, white and touches of rust red, like the brushstrokes of a painting. It comes from the same family as Fusion; quarries are few and lots rare.
Request this selection: Van Gogh
Colorado
323 × 188 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Dramatic layers of dark blue-grey and charcoal alternating with cream, white and golden ochre crystalline seams. Energetic as a stormy landscape, for islands and statement walls.
Request this selection: Colorado
Splendido
333 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Large flowing shapes of chocolate brown and warm taupe, grained like wood, interrupted by bold areas of white and lilac grey crystalline quartz. Warm and theatrical.
Request this selection: Splendido
Elegant Brown
320 × 195 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Dense diagonal layering of taupe grey, violet brown and blue-grey, with fine copper threads, like sediment. Sober and warm at once, for bathrooms, walls and worktops where a regular figure is wanted.
Request this selection: Elegant Brown
Stone Wood
297 × 175 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
It looks like petrified wood: a cream and beige ground with concentric rings and growth bands of tan, caramel and brown, cut by a few dark brown fractures. Organic and warm, for statement walls and furniture.
Request this selection: Stone Wood
Sandalus
323 × 201 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
A wood grain: long horizontal bands of golden brown, bronze, chocolate and black, with fine parallel lines. Warm and rich, for walls and furniture where wood is wanted but stone is needed.
Request this selection: Sandalus
Bronzite
315 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Bronze and chocolate brown in horizontal layers, crossed by blue-grey threads and golden and copper glints. Warm and deep, with an almost metallic sheen: for dark kitchens and walls.
Request this selection: Bronzite
Revolution
323 × 194 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Coral and brick red in folded, wave-like layers, with dark threads and bold diagonal seams of white crystalline quartz. One of the very rare red quartzites.
Request this selection: Revolution
Explosion Rouge
315 × 190 cm2 cm and 3 cm thick
Antique pink and brick red crossed by flames of white and cream quartz rising vertically, with fine dark threads. One of the rare red quartzites, warm and theatrical.
Request this selection: Explosion RougeAbout the stone
Quartzite is a sandstone that heat and pressure have turned into a rock made almost entirely of quartz: hardness 7 on the Mohs scale, more than granite, with the resistance to acids, heat and frost that marble lacks. That is why it has become the stone of high-end kitchen worktops and bathrooms, and it is used outdoors too. Almost all decorative quartzites come from Brazil: they are quarried in Bahia, Minas Gerais and Ceará and sawn mainly in the mills of Espírito Santo, into large slabs of over three metres by almost two. Beware of «soft quartzites»: some materials sold under the name, such as Super White or Fantasy Brown, are dolomitic marbles and fear acids. A lot is checked with the glass test, which true quartzite scratches, and the vinegar test, which leaves it unmarked.
Available finishes
PolishedHonedBrushedSandblasted
How the finish changes the stone
Recommended uses
- Kitchen worktops
- Bathrooms and basins
- Wall cladding
- Interior flooring
- Furniture and objects
- External paving
- Ventilated façades
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.
See also
Related materials
Same category or similar colour: worth comparing before you decide.
