Color: Predominantly white with striking gold and gray veining. Texture: Smooth and polished, offering a reflective surface. Durability: While marble is generally softer than granite, with proper care ...

FOR MOST OF the 2000s, white Calacatta and Carrara marble, with their subtle colorations, reigned as interior design’s status stones. “Everyone” craved the gray and gold hints of color that ...

Calacatta Gold: This primarily white stone is similar to Carrara but features both gray and gold veining. 4. Statuary: Mined from the same area in Italy as Carrara, this bright-white marble boasts ...

The final two styles, called Calacatta Grey and Statuario Delicato, offer a more classic, white-marble finish. Top image: a restaurant with Connemarble Irish tiles. Above: an Aosta Green Marble tile ...

And calacatta is one of the world's most expensive types of marble. It's more than double the price of carrara marble, yet mined in the same mountains. But the key to calacatta's price is its rarity.

The biggest one was the white Calcutta marble countertop for the kitchen island. Its green-gray tones and veining caught her attention as soon as she walked into the Bottega Stone showroom.The ...