Onyx Backlit Feature Wall Design

Most stone reads by reflected light. Onyx is different — it reads by light passing through it. That’s the whole appeal of onyx backlit feature wall design: instead of a surface you look at, you get a surface that glows, with every vein and color band lit from...

Cutting Quartzite Countertops: A Fabricator’s Guide

Quartzite is the hardest natural stone you’ll ever put on a saw — it lands around 7 to 8 on the Mohs scale, comfortably above granite. That single fact explains why cutting quartzite countertops humbles shops that treat it like just another slab. The material...

A Spec Guide for Multifamily Countertops

When you’re building a single home, the countertop is a finish. When you’re doing 200 units, it’s a line item that repeats 200 times — and every dollar of future maintenance rides along with it. That’s the shift in thinking behind the...

How Designers & Architects create Book Matched Slabs

There’s a moment in a slab yard we never get tired of. Two panels come off the same block, we open them like a book, and the veining suddenly mirrors itself down the seam. What was a beautiful stone becomes a piece of architecture. That’s the whole draw of...