Fireplace Carrara marble L 150cm

Since the dawn of time, one of the primary necessities of man’s concept of “dwelling” has been to procure, domesticate, confine, and maintain fire by exploiting it for lighting, heating, and cooking. The fireplace owes its birth to the Normans, but it knew its heyday in the era of Louis XVI.

Although in the modern world the need is often purely aesthetic and decorative, the fireplace remains an undisputed symbol of family warmth and conviviality. A piece of furniture that we are naturally inclined to associate with winter, but which can become, with simple ideas, the centerpiece in home decoration in any season.

In modern architecture, the increasing focus on the environment and environmentally friendly heating sources is leading to an increasing appreciation of the use of the fireplace in modern homes, successfully combining the purely aesthetic and decorative function with the practical and everyday one.

In the modern world the need is often purely aesthetic and decorative, but the fireplace remains an undisputed symbol of family warmth and conviviality.

THE MATERIAL.

White Carrara marble is the quintessential Italian natural stone known and appreciated all over the world. All the great sculptors have measured themselves with this material which in the clearest variety is not by chance called Statuary. It is the marble of the great Italian Renaissance, which delivered to the immotality of History the magnificence of cities like Florence and works like Michelangelo’s David, considered the most perfect masterpiece of all time.

The calcite crystals that form this type of marble do not reflect light, but instead allow it to penetrate the material, which appears almost illuminated from within. This particular quality causes white Carrara marble to be so highly valued in the arts and construction industry because of its aesthetic refinement.

Due to its fine appearance, white Carrara marble is widely used for the construction of luxury architectural elements: not only pillars, claddings, columns and floors, but also cornices, plinths and capitals. Such rock is also often used to make fountains, fireplaces, statues, decorative objects of all kinds, even tombstones, stelae and altars.

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