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Featured Stone of the Week, Golden Violet Onyx Slab

Golden Violet Onyx:

Today we highlight our Polished, Golden Violet Onyx, vein cut slabs available in 2cm thickness.

Majestic comes to mind when I lay my eyes upon this material, it’s depth and translucency are a gift in it’s self, offering a subtle glimpse of the inner world workings of such a stone as this Golden Violet Onyx. It is especially translucent when backlit as to reveal its natural beauty.

The warming ochre’s and burnished burgundies evoke a sense of luxury, sensuality and comfort. Truly an experience that only few stones can come close to.

This material would be most suitable in a shower, tub deck and surround, vanity, art niche tops, wall art, fireplace surround & hearth, sky light or whatever you may fancy.

Stay tuned for next weeks up an coming stone feature of the week!

Enjoy!

Featured Stone of the week

Here we showcase our Polished, Stalattite Brown Onyx a warm honey chocolate hued material from the Middle East. This material was once originally formed in deep caverns possibly as a Stalactite formation collectively known as a dripstone. Over a period of time, space and its overall dependence and presence of air it continues to “drip” down accumulating its icicle structure through calcification born out of cold mineral springs. On the other end of the spectrum there are Stalagmites which are formed while on the ground and is created by the same process but accrete into a piller formation…this amazing process is a love story of stone where the Stalactites meets the Stalagmites and fuse together in this eternal bond that we call stone or rather in this case Onyx.

This material would be worthy to be used as a vanity, shower surround, fireplace, etc…there are virtually endless possibilities for such a material as this Vein cut Stalattite Brown Onyx. We have a light with a lot of movement (see the picture included) as well as a dark version that has a bit more linear veining with a wood-like accent.

We recommend that this material be viewed in person as it’s wholeheartedly reminiscent to the precious stone known as “Tiger Eye” or perhaps something more as it’s all in the eye of the beholder.

Featured Stone of the week:

This week we’d like to illuminate a superb slab of Sodalite featured here in a lightweight 1 cm thickness, this is a super dense material known for it’s rare properties (it is a close relative to Lapis Lazuli) A precious stone prized for it’s ultramarine pigment & rich blues also known as the “Heaven Stone.” Its highlights are most definitely its lustrous deep blue and the overall richness & depth. It induces one to recall a space of blue skies with it’s scattered grains of gold-like pyrite that are akin to the stars, while others are captured by it’s white calcite areas resembling clouds.

Perhaps this may be a material to please and appease you & yours that may be ideal for a vanity top, fireplace surround or any other fine furnishing application that you can imagine.

Stay tuned for next weeks featured stone of the week!

Gem & Jewelry ShowS



Maplewood Rock and Gem Club
Annual Fall Show
Maplewood Clubhouse
8802 196th St SW
Edmonds, WA
Saturday, November 6, 2010 9AM – 5PM
Sunday, November 7, 2010 9AM – 4PM

International Gem & Jewelry ShowSeattle Center
Mercer St., at 3rd Ave., N.
Seattle, WA 98109

NOVEMBER 19-21, 2010

Friday 12:00 pm-6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am-5:00 pm

Marble Countertops for Kitchen and Bath

Why white Danby marble? Aside from the beauty, it’s low absorption rate of (0.07) makes it highly suitable for use in the kitchen. This is much lower than many granites!! On average, Danby marble is installed EVERYDAY in this country! And last but not least, Vermont Quarries is the 1st & only marble quarry to achieve T…he Greenguard certification! Check out the graph that compares the purosity rate of other white marbles.

New Materials Arriving Sept 5th, 2010:

● 18”x18” Tile Calacatta Polished Marble ●

3cm Bianco Carrara Polished Marble ●

3cm Dark Julia Honed Soapstone (Black) ●

3cm Exotic Emperador Polished Marble ●

2cm Kilimanjaro Polished Onyx ●

3cm Pietra Del Cardosa Semi Polished Schist ●

2cm Silver Honed Travertine ●

3cm Titanium Black Polished Granite ●

New Materials Shipment!

● 24”x48” Tile French Pattern Leathered Belgian Limestone ●

2cm Black & Gold vein cut Polished Onyx ●

2cm Black & Gold Michelangelo Polished Marble●

2cm Botticino Fiorito Polished Marble ●

2cm Botticino Semi-Classico Polished Marble ●

1cm Breccia Oniciatta Polished Marble ●

1cm Calacatta Classical Gold Borgini Polished Marble●

2 & 3cm Calacatta Crestola Oro Polished Marble ●

2cm Crema Marfil Polished Marble ●

1 & 2cm Daino Reale Polished Marble ●

2cm Dark Emperador Polished Marble●

2cm Eramosa vein cut Polished Marble ●

1cm Giallo Reale Polished Marble ●

2cm Giallo Siena Polished Marble ●

2cm Golden Violet Polished Onyx ●

2cm Light Blue Polished Onyx●

1cm Nero Marquina Polished Marble ●

2cm Sarah Red Polished Marble ●

1.5cm Stalattite Polished Marble ●

1cm Verde Fuoco Polished Onyx ●

2cm Verde Polished Onyx●