Calacatta Violet | OPP21

Calacatta Viola is an Italian precious marble.

The Purple Calacatta marble is an Apuan marble, extracted in the areas of Carrara but also in Versilia and Garfagnana.

It is a fine-grained marble with a white background with purplish-coloured veins.
Sometimes the purple colour of the vein fades towards pink and green with golden flashes typical of the Vagli marbles.

The quarries have a limited productivity and the blocks must be resinated before being cut in order to prevent the breaking of the slabs, which are then resined again to repair defects and micro-cracks.

This marble is very porous and it is made of different components which absorb the polishing in different ways.
The result is a polished effect that is not homogeneous.

We suggest to order the polyester treatment to avoid this effect.
In fact, on demand, marble tops can be coated with polyester treatment, which consists in a painting process similar to the process that wooden furniture is submitted to, covering
any possible micro hole, sealing, filling, thus making the marble uniform and smooth, also in the painting.