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GRANITES & MARBLES

Feel the Elegance of Marble. For more than 2000 years, marble has been the material of choice for many of man's greatest building accomplishments. The Taj Mahal, the Parthenon and many of today's most exciting buildings use marble for interiors and exteriors to express quality, taste and elegance. Marble is limestone which has been metamorphosed through the action of heat, pressure and time deep beneath the earth's surface. The result is a hard composition of crystals running the colour gamut from nearly pure white to black. Coloured marbles are the result of minerals or small amounts of staining matter. Natural quarried marble has highly appealing inherent variations in colour and physical properties. Marble comes polished to a mirror like finish which captures the beauty and brilliance of the natural stone. A practical finish to use on marbles which are subjected to heavy traffic wear is the Honed finish.