Statuario Marble

Statuario marble is a white natural stone with bold grey veining on a pure white backdrop. If you’re seeking a luxurious, high-end look for your home, consider using Statuario marble. The statuesque marble is one of the market’s most expensive and sought-after materials due to its pure white colour and striking grey veining. Statuario marble is available in only a few select locations in Carrara, Tuscany, contributing to its high popularity. Due to its durability and impressive appearance, this material is prevalent in luxury projects such as new kitchens, bathrooms, and entire home renovations.

Statuario Marble Description

Statuario marble is an upscale decoration material with distinct grey veining and a brilliant white base. After its extraction in the Apuan Alps, Italy, you will find it in some of the world’s most famous sculptures and buildings, including Michelangelo’s David.

This luxurious marble is quarried at high altitudes, contributing to its rarity. In addition, extracting Statuario marble is difficult and dangerous, adding to the stone’s exclusivity. The purest Statuario has an entirely white background with little to no veining. 

Due to its unique beauty and scarcity, Statuario marble is one of the market’s most popular types of marble. If you are looking for a genuinely natural and exclusive marble for your home or business, Statuario may be a perfect choice.

Pattern Variation: Medium–High. 

Statuario Marble History

Statuario is a white metamorphic rock famous in the Renaissance period for sculpture and architecture. The word “statuario” comes from the Latin word “statua”, meaning “statue”. And the statue of David by Michelangelo comprises this type of marble, making a great example of its timeless elegance and beauty.

The Romans used this marble for their sculptural work and decorating many buildings, such as the Pantheon, the Temple of Venus and Roma, the Baths of Agrippa, and the Basilica Julia. Statuario marble is one of the world’s most commonly used marbles and is present in many high-end hotels and restaurants. It has a white colour with tones ranging from grey to dark grey.

Other Names:

This marble comes from the Apuan Alps and is known as Bianco Statuario marble, Statuario White Marble, White Statuario marble, Statuary Marble, and Bianco Statuario Extra, Statuario 1st marble, Statuario Extra 1st marble.

Advantages of Using Statuario Marble In Interior Spaces

1. Durable: Despite marble’s softness, an excellent attribute for seamless fabrication and cutting, the stone is robust, making it in some of the most innovative marble applications in private residences, public places, and even furniture sets that have gone well beyond the material’s typical usage. You can use marble to create anything from eccentric bathtubs to table tops, plinths, console tables, architraves, and shower panels. Marble demonstrates the variety of purposes you can give it and its unlimited hues and patterns, drawing attention to the material’s diversity with brilliant interior designers and architects and contributing to delightfully unique spaces employing marble.
2. Hygienic: marble’s low porosity ensures no bacteria cannot penetrate its surface. Cleaning your marble worktops with a very diluted solution of dishwashing detergent is sufficient to lower the microbe count, meeting the Food and Drug Administration’s mandated cleanliness threshold for kitchen worktops. After rinsing with water, a marble worktop is hygienic over the critical point. And if you sanitise it using a very mild solution of white vinegar, you will eliminate 100% of germs.
3. Practical: marble’s softness makes it one of the most functional natural stones for building and decoration. While the Romans made the most of its softness for sculpturing, you can make the most of it by shaping it to any form and size, whether for worktops, walls, floors, shelves, or more.
4. Colour Intense: Although marble is often light-coloured, you can find marble in any colour and shade in the spectrum. And no other material can provide the same level of colour intensity marble provides, whether quartz, ceramic, or concrete.

Statuario Marble Benefits

1. Natural Patterns: natural marble’s patterns are unique and simply divine. No other stone can replicate the natural veins of white or black marble with the same level of organic beauty. Certain marble effect quartz stones look ‘inky’, and some porcelain may look ‘like a print on the surface. In contrast, marble always looks 100% natural, organic, and unaltered. It is the original shiny rock masterpiece from nature.
2. Wide Array of Sizes: There is some misunderstanding regarding the accessibility or possibility of marble, as almost any marble can meet your project’s requirements. Marble slab size starts at approximately 2500 x 1500 mm and can extend up to 3200 x 1980 mm, depending on the variety you select.
3. Various Thicknesses: You can choose marble worktops of 20 mm and 30 mm in standard thicknesses. In addition, you can select thicker marble surfaces of 40 mm, 50 mm, and more as non-standard thicknesses.
4. Remarkable Finishes: The marble fascia’s softness is ideal for producing various finishes that are unique to this stone. Similarly, marble is the natural rock with the highest number of finishes available in the marketplace. You can choose from flat finishes such as polished, honed, and Satinato. In addition, you can select from textured finishes that include leather, bush-hammered, rock face, sandblasted, split-face, shot-sawn, and machine-tooled. The possibilities are endless.

Statuario Marble Sizes, Thickness, Finishes

• Sizes: The slabs have a minimum dimension of 2.50 x 1.50m and a maximum size of 310x190cm.
• Finish: It is readily available in a polished finish. You can also choose Statuario honed marble when you prefer matte or textured finishes for your project.
• Coverage: With a single marble slab, you can cover an area of approximately 5 square meters of surface, whether it is kitchen worktops, floors, or wall panels.
• Protection: Our production team applies professional natural stone sealant coating to your marble slabs upon delivery. Later, our worktop installers use an additional layer of this sealant when completing your kitchen worktop, bathroom, fireplace, or floor installation.
• Thicknesses: Statuario marble is readily available in 2 or 3 cm thickness. Consult with our marble experts if you require thicknesses of 4, 5 or 6 cm or more.

Our production team specialises in creating bespoke Statuario marble work surfaces, backsplashes, upstands, or installations to your specifications.

Two Drawbacks of Statuario Marble as a Kitchen Worktop.

Although marble’s eternal looks stand the test of time, there are two main cons of using the material as a kitchen worktop that we highlight below. Nevertheless, and despite these two instances, marble is perfectly suitable for kitchens when its users care minimally for it. As a result, marble has remained a favourite worktop material amongst architects, interior designers and building specialists for centuries.

1. Practicality: Whilst marble is practical for shaping and installation, other materials such as quartz, porcelain and granite offer more practical maintenance.
2. Etching: Marble contains calcium carbonate, the substance in our teeth that the dentist says may get ruined when consuming too much lemon. It makes it susceptible to acidic substances such as lemon and oranges. Therefore, marble can react to acids by presenting it as a ‘stain’ you cannot remove, known as ‘etching’. The good news is that you can remove marble’s top layer by repolishing its fascia.

How to Combine Statuario Marble 

How you can combine statuario marble in kitchens: If you love the look of marble but are stuck on how to use it in your kitchen, never fear! There are plenty of ways to incorporate this luxurious material into your cooking space.

Try using statuario marble for your countertops for a classic and elegant look. This timeless material will give your kitchen an air of sophistication. For a more modern look, consider using statuario marble for your backsplash. It’s a great way to add a touch of luxury to your kitchen without going overboard.

Another great way to use statuario marble in your kitchen is on the floor. This material is incredibly durable and easy to clean, making it ideal for high-traffic areas like kitchens. In addition, its sleek and shiny surface will reflect light and make your kitchen appear brighter and larger.

Statuario marble is a luxurious material that can also add a touch of elegance to any bathroom. 

When choosing this marble for your bathroom, there are a few things you should keep as basics. First, consider the overall theme of your space. If you want a more traditional look, opt for a slab with bold veins of this classic white marble. For a contemporary twist, try pairing it with black or grey marble. Once you’ve decided on the right colour, it’s time to start thinking about how to use it in your design.

One popular way to incorporate marble into your bathroom is by using it for vanity tops. Marble vanities are not only beautiful, but they’re also durable and easy to care for.

Use & Care of Marble

Caring for Statuario marble doesn’t take your time, thanks to the marble’s low porosity. First, our teams seal the marble slabs upon delivery before processing them for fabrication. Then, after cutting the worktops, our installation teams seal your marble worktops again, ensuring there are no unprotected areas.

Cleaning: Clean the countertop with a gentle dish detergent or a PH-neutral cleaner to keep it looking new. You’ll enjoy the best when cleaning with warm water and a damp towel while softly caressing the work surface’s top layer. After cleaning, rinse and dry the worktop to remove any residues.

Below are five simple recommendations to help you keep your Panonazzo marble worktops in excellent condition over time:

• If any liquids spill on the worktop, clean them up immediately.
• Avoid putting scorching items straight on the countertop. Instead, we recommend using a trivet to avoid scratching the stone.
• Avoid using abrasive cleaners such as metal scouring pads. Instead, carefully stroke the surface with a kitchen sponge.
• Don’t use alkaline cleaners and very acidic chemicals to minimise damage to the marble’s surface.

Would you like to know more about Statuario marble worktops, splashbacks, or Statuario marble honed for bathrooms? – Get in touch with our team to know more about this unique natural stone!

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