MATERIALS
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- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Portugal
- Spain
Origin – Italy
Colour / appearance – typically light in colour ranging from white to beige and sometimes called Alabaster Roman Travertine. When cross cut the pattern is cloudy, when vein cut the typical parallel lines or bands are seen. Does not typically contain significant pores or cavities.
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – Italy
Colour/ appearance – slightly darker than Roman Travertine, Montemerano has a slightly wavy grain. When cross cut it has a warm, earthy appearance with texture and when vein cut exhibits distinctive lines and banding.
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – Italy
Colour / appearance – a blend of silver, light grey and light to dark brown shades. When vein cut the veining becomes obvious with characteristic wavy parallel bands.
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding
Origin – Italy
Colour / appearance – uniform light beige in colour. When vein cut the veining becomes obvious with characteristic wavy parallel bands. Highly porous and can be used filled or unfilled
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – Italy
Colour / appearance – ranges in colour from light caramel through to darkish brown, with some background colour variation. When vein cut the veining becomes obvious with characteristic wavy parallel bands.
Use – Internal flooring, interior wall cladding, external paving, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – Spain
Colour/appearance – bluish grey stone ranging from mid to light with some paler veining.
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding, interior applications, some external applications
Origin – Portugal
Colour / appearance – dark blue grey limestone with fine greyish grains and medium sized brownish and greyish spots
Use – External cladding, external paving, internal wall cladding and applications, internal flooring
Origin – Portugal
Colour / Appearance – light beige base with abundance of fossils and shells
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding and applications, masonry
Origin – Portugal
Colour / Appearance – beige homogenous appearance with darker toned large grains and some fossil. If cut against the vein, it has a distinct parallel vein. If cut in the direction of the vein, the uniform background is highlighted with some shaded areas. There are various different types of Moca Cream.
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring, masonry
Origin – Portugal
Colour / Appearance – light beige base with some darker brown fossil content
Use – External cladding, masonry, internal wall cladding, internal flooring, external paving
Origin – Portugal
Colour / Appearance – light beige to white homogeneous colour, fine to medium brown grain, comes in a shelly form too with high fossil content
Use – External cladding, masonry, internal wall cladding, internal flooring
Origin – Portugal
Colour / Appearance – light greyish-beige stone with some veins and stylolites, fine grained.
Use – External cladding, masonry, internal flooring, internal wall cladding, external paving, architectural applications
Origin – Germany
Colour – Appearance – ranges in colour from golden brown to dark grey with some porosity and fossil content
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring and applications, external paving
Origin – Germany
Colour/appearance – grey to creamy beige with some porosity, which can be filled if required
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring and applications
Origin – Germany
Colour / Appearance – grey to light brown base with some fossil and shell content
Use –External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring and applications
Origin – Germany
Colour / Appearance – creamy background with dark veining. Cut from same layers as Jura Cream but cut against the layer resulting in the veining
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring and applications
Origin – Germany
Colour / Appearance – creamy background with darker small shells and fossils present.
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring and applications
Origin – Germany
Colour / Appearance – beige coloured limestone with fine to medium grain and characterized by darker fossil content throughout the stone, can be a dark and a lighter variety of the stone.
Use – Internal wall cladding, internal flooring and applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – uniform, off white buff toned with light veins and occasional shell inclusion.
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – fine grained beige stone
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – golden beige and open grained
Use – External cladding, masonry
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – Several different types of Massangis. Massangis Clair, pale and creamy with some fine sandy grains. Massangis Jaune, yellowish with occasional fossil and shell inclusions
Use – External Cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – light beige stone sometimes with a light pink hue that varies from very little fossil content to high fossil content
Use – External paving, external cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – light beige background with medium grain and occasional shell inclusions, consistent grain distribution stippled evenly across surface
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – pale creamy, yellow soft limestone
Use – Carving, restoration works, internal wall cladding, external cladding
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – creamy white stone with golden beige to brown fossil content
Use – Internal wall cladding, internal flooring, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – from dark to light beige with varying amounts of rust veining and some fossil content, depending on quarry, can be grey-beige.
Use – Internal wall cladding, internal flooring, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – beige/cream with some fossil content
Use – Internal flooring, internal wall cladding, external cladding, architectural applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – off white and slightly stippled with grey on a beige background, fine grain
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – two shades, light and dark. Lighter stone, Ampilly Clair, has honey coloured bands, the darker called Tigre has patches of mottled brown
Use – external cladding, internal wall cladding, ashlar/masonry, external paving, internal flooring, architectural applications
Origin – Spain
Colour / Appearance – light coloured beige/yellowish limestone, often called a marble. Uniform base colour with some veining and varying degrees of fossil and or calcite.
Use – Interior flooring, interior wall cladding, interior applications
Origin – France
Colour / Appearance – light, beige coloured stone with fairly high fossil and shell content
Use – External cladding, interior wall cladding, architectural applications
Origin – Portugal
Colour / appearance – light beige to ivory in colour with tiny natural pale to golden coloured fossils
Use – External cladding, interior wall cladding, interior flooring, architectural applications
Origin – Portugal
Colour / Appearance – pale, light beige to slightly greyish base with thin to medium grain and some brownish spots.
Use – External cladding, internal wall cladding, internal flooring, masonry, external paving
Origin – Germany
Colour / Appearance – yellow to deep gold coloured stone with abundance of small fossils and shells in darker colour
Use – Internal wall cladding, external cladding, internal flooring and applications
