In stock
Calacatta Viola marble
Calacatta Viola marble features elegant purple veining on a white background and comes from one of Italy's oldest quarries. Burgundy veining on a cream-coloured background characterises the stone. Read More
Calacatta Viola marble, from one of Italy’s oldest quarries, features elegant purple veining on a white background. Burgundy veining on a cream-coloured ground characterises the stone. The stone looks stunning with its characteristics, cuts, and colours when paired with neutral colours.
This white, purple, and reddish natural stone is an excellent option for giving your home an elegant look and is a great choice for book-matched kitchen, bathroom, or living room installations.
The World’s Most Viola Marble, Now in Your Home
This Italian marble is ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, and exterior applications. Because of its sophisticated look, you may use the marble as a kitchen or bathroom countertop. It has a non-slip surface and is simple to clean. In addition, the stone is resistant to humidity, so you can use it in a bathroom with a shower or bathtub. Similarly, you can also use it for exterior applications like patios, floors, and steps.
Thicknesses: Calacatta Viola marble 20mm is our most popular thickness for this stone. You can also select it in 30 mm for voluminous worktops such as kitchen islands.
Finishes: Calacatta Viola is readily available in polished finish and honed subject to a quick stock check by The Worktop Library’s production team.
Why Calacatta Viola Marble?
Calacatta Viola has been a tried-and-tested marble since Roman times. Today, it is a popular choice for worktops, with its wide variety of applications, from interior to exterior. In addition, it is a resilient and durable stone. Therefore, you can use it in high—and low-traffic areas, floors, and walls.
Besides its uniquely beautiful look, Calacatta Viola marble is perfect for demanding areas. It offers an abrasion resistance of 55mm. In addition, if its fascia ever wears out, you can re-polish its surface after a few years of use and regain its original sheen to look like when you first applied it.
A Low-Porosity Marble with a 025% Absorption Rate
You want to keep your home safe and clean for your family. However, worktops can be breeding grounds for bacteria, mould, and other icky microbes.
Constant cleaning can be ineffective and even damage your surfaces. Calacatta Viola is a marble that can provide you with a better solution. With only a 0.25% absorption rate per kilogram, Calcutta Viola marble offers a protective barrier against bacteria, mould, and dirt.
They are easy to clean and maintain, so you can spend less time scrubbing and more time enjoying your home.
You Deserve a Better Worktop Installation Experience.
The stone industry needs to modernise faster, leaving clients frustrated and dissatisfied. We deliver innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ spaces by empowering our Worktop Installation experts with state-of-the-art tools.
We at The Worktop Library are a stone countertop supplier built for the 21st century.
We provide free online design consultations and estimates, posting every sample so you can create the design of your dreams from the comfort of your bed. With a turnaround as quick as five working days from template to installation, we are accustomed to tight deadlines and strict business openings.
Would you like to know more about how our stunning Calacatta Viola marble can help you achieve a modern, clean atmosphere in your home?
Calacatta Viola Marble
Specifications
Material: Natural marble
Colour tones: White, violet, purple, blue, grey
Finishes: Polished, honed
Thicknesses: 1.8 cm, 2 cm
Average slab size: 270 x 180 – 310 x 195 cm
Style: Veins, Streaks
Heat resistance: 350 °C
Hardness: 3.5 (out of 10 on Moh’s scale)
Applications: kitchen worktops, bathroom floors, fireplace, furniture, splashbacks, shelves and other uses.
Usage: Indoor/Outdoor
Country: Italy
Natural marble is a fantastic option for kitchen worktops, upstands, or walls in homes and businesses. It has remained the king of worktops for centuries thanks to the mix of eternal beauty, high performance and affordability it offers.
- Natural marble is UV suitable, making it a perfect outdoor worktop material.
- You can choose marble in various finishes: Polished, Leather, Honed, Bush-Hammered, Satinato, and more.
- Each slab of natural marble worktop is unique to you and your project. Nature does not create two identical marble slabs.
- Marble can withstand exceptionally high heat (up to 300 degrees Celsius) and offers excellent scratch and stain resistance performance.
- When you embark on a kitchen or bathroom renovation, you will most likely consider how the material would improve the appearance and functionality of your house. However, with marble, you can also consider how it can boost the property's value. Your home is a significant investment, and adding marble worktops can help increase its value in the future.
Calacatta Viola marble comprises raw minerals and is a 100% natural stone. Therefore, as with any natural product, its composition may differ slightly across blocks.
Calacatta Viola marble's technical features are the following (petrographical classification):
- Name: Calacatta Viola
- Type of material: marble
- Origin: Italy
- Colour: White, Purple, Violet, Red
- Hardness (Mohs): 3
- Weight: 2710 ± 5,2 kg/m
- Water Absorption: 0.25%
- Compressive strength: 1260 Kg/cm2
- Bending Strenght: 125kg/cm2
As an organic material, marble's warranty comes from nature. And because marble is a natural product, it has inherent flaws and fractures that make it unique.
You can select from our Sensa, Naturamia, and Granith stone collections of branded natural materials if you prefer marble with a warranty. Our manufacturer's warranties for natural stone worktops range from 2 to 15 years.
Calacatta Viola marble belongs to our Price Group 4 (four), representing a medium to a high price point.
Calacatta Viola marble is a sedimentary carbonate rock consisting of calcite or a mix of dolomite and calcite, originally limestone that transformed into marble over millennia.
Calacatta Viola marble, also known as Viola marble or Calcutta Viola, is a natural stone from Lucca in Massa, a Tuscany town near the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apuan Alps.
Be the first to review “Calacatta Viola marble” Cancel reply
RETURNS AND SHIPPING POLICY RETURNS
Except for damaged surfaces, all sales are final. Please call 020 39760029 or email HELLO@WORKTOPLIBRARY.CO.UK for more information before mailing exchanges or purchasing return products installed in faulty or damaged condition.
SHIPPING \\\\ TURNAROUND
We process all orders within one business day. However, specific stones may have longer lead times due to high demand or special-order items from other countries.
DELIVERY & INSTALLATION COSTS
We compute delivery and installation costs at the time of purchase. Our team of professional stone fitters install all stone surfaces.
Installation and delivery charges vary depending on weight, site access, and delivery location from our workshop in West London, United Kingdom.
INSTALLATION & DELIVERY ADDRESSES
Stone worktop installation is available in London and up to 150 miles of surrounding areas. Don't hesitate to get in touch with our Worktop Library Service Team at (20) 39760029.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.