The Use of Marble in Interior Design
Essentially a metamorphic rock, marble’s unique and artistic patterns are the result of various impurities in its constitutional recrystallised carbonate minerals.
With its characteristically mesmeric patterns, marble enjoys a long history of use in sculpture and grand architecture, while the non-porous, hardwearing insulator has remained a construction and decorative favourite in modern design too, keeping its rigidity and durability over time.
A perfect material for hardworking modern-day surfaces and long-term use as decorative panels, marble is synonymous with a refined and stylish taste, but also an expensive one.
High-Quality Marble-Effect Materials
The in-demand natural resource is time-consuming and expensive to mine, requiring highly-skilled stonemasons to extract it and apply its characteristic polish. Advances in material and graphic technologies, however, allow specifiers with a range of budgetary constraints to bring these stunning, undulating marble-like patterns and performance into a range of projects such as high-end homes and luxury hospitality and retail space.
Created from various composite materials, these technologically advanced marble imitators are arguably better than the real thing. The strong, non-porous performance surfaces are visually seamless and as robust as stone, but can be moulded into bespoke shapes like plastic, or sawn, drilled and sanded like wood.
Discover Marble-Effect Materials on Architonic
More details can be unearthed on each type of marble-effect material via its individual product page. Specifiers can learn about the composition and attributes of each, its environmental suitability and the range of colours, patterns and textures available, from the informative texts and product variant galleries. While the ambient image galleries provide visual inspiration and assurance of the material’s suitability for various projects.
