A Field Guide
Antolini Textures+ Collection
Twenty-five Italian stones cut into the language of fabric — Bamboo, Flut, Petra, Swing, Ribbed, Stratos, Capitonné. The program where Antolini brings natural stone closer to Haute Couture. Stocked at the Royal Stone yard in Los Angeles.
A Note on the Collection
No. 001
Textures+ is the Antolini program where the surface language of fabric — bamboo grain, fluted column, woven linen, quilted upholstery — is cut directly into natural stone. The field stays stone; the touch and shadow become textile.
Twenty-five stones run through the program — eight marbles, seven quartzites, two natural quartz flagships, four granites, two soft-quartzite black lots, plus the Platinum Black Label travertine, Italian basalt, and a southern dolomit. Across them, roughly eighteen finish languages: some apply to every stone, a few are reserved (Metal to Irish Green and Belvedere, Capitonné and Quilt to Afyon and Nero Marquina, Striato to Cielo and Cristallo Traslux, Urban and Papirus to New Galaxy).
Royal Stone is an authorised Antolini dealer in Los Angeles. Textures+ slabs are pulled to order on the 90,000-sq-ft yard, warehouse and showroom combined at 2303 South Sepulveda. Designers and architects working in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Pacific Palisades and Malibu — walk the program by appointment, take samples in the languages your project is considering.
This is the field guide. What each stone is, which finishes it takes, and where to find the slab in the yard. For the finish language itself — what Bamboo is versus Flut, what Capitonné does that no other cut does — see the glossary.
01 · Marble
Marble
Eight Italian and one Spanish marble. The white-grade lots (Dover, Bianco Lasa, White Super) take the full finish range. Afyon White and Nero Marquina are reserved for the upholstery languages.
Marble
Bianco Lasa Covelano Fantastico
The Italian Lasa marble cut into the warmest range of finishes in the collection — Antolini reserves the Flexwaves dimensional finish for this lot in book-matched feature walls.
Marble
Silver Stream
Directional grey-and-cream marble with a strong moving grain. The textured finishes register the flow as a second pattern — the ribbed languages turn the veining into something that reads almost like raked silt.
02 · Quartzite
Quartzite
Five Brazilian and Italian quartzites cut into the working-counter side of the program — Taj Mahal as the reference field, Cielo and Charme as cool and warm alternates, Madeirus and Brown Chocolate for saturated colour work.
Quartzite
Taj Mahal
The benchmark cream quartzite. Quietest finish range in the catalogue — every textured cut stays close to the original stone's character. The reference field for reading the finish language.
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03 · Natural Quartz (Cristallo & Patagonia)
Natural Quartz
Two flagships of the program — Patagonia Original Extra and Cristallo Traslux. Both translucent in passages. The leather and broken-cleavage finishes belong here.
Natural Quartz
Patagonia Original Extra
Antolini's flagship natural quartz. Hard Rock — the broken cleavage finish — is where this stone lives; the leather cut is the only one in the program. Backlit work belongs here.
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Natural Quartz
Cristallo Traslux
The translucent end of the Cristallo family, cut for texture work. The finish program is built around backlit applications — fluted, gapped and ribbed cuts diffuse the light into a second pattern.
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Soft Quartzite
The black-and-white-vein lots. Harder than marble, softer than true quartzite — fabricators handle them like a working marble. Bamboo and Ribbed cuts dominate.
05 · Granite
Granite
Four architectural granites — Black Ice and Kosmus for residential, Belvedere White Vein for hospitality, New Galaxy for commercial scale.
06 · Travertine
Travertine
The Platinum Black Label cut, with the textured finishes amplifying the natural layered language.
Travertine
Travertino Platinum Black Label
The Black Label cut of Antolini's Platinum travertine — silver, iron and cream bands. The Stratos finish doubles the natural layered language. The most photogenic stone in the program for headboard walls.
See this stone →07 · Basalt
Basalt
Italian volcanic basalt — the only basalt in the program. Vesicle pattern open in Hard Rock; closed under the smoother finishes.
08 · Dolomit
Dolomit
A dolomit — between marble and limestone. Soft cool field, residential.
A Note on Finish
No. 002
Finish is the second decision after stone.
A polished slab and a Bamboo-cut slab of the same lot read as two different materials. Light catches the fluted column; water beads and runs; the eye reads the vein as it crosses the texture rather than under it. Specification work in Textures+ is about pairing stone and finish — choosing one to amplify the other, or to quiet it down.
The next page is the finish glossary. Bamboo, Flut, Petra, Ribbed, Swing, Stratos, Linen, Capitonné — each defined, each shown on a reference stone, with notes on where to specify it.
The Finish Glossary →Continue
The Finish Glossary
Every Textures+ finish — what each does, how it reads, where to specify it.
Read →Antolini Program
The full Antolini dealership at Royal Stone — current slab selections, hand-picked from Verona.
Read →Cristallo Field Guide
Every Cristallo type — White, Bianco Lumix, Cobalt, Trasviolet, Vitrum Dual.
Read →Visit the Yard
2303 South Sepulveda, Los Angeles. By appointment. The full Textures+ program walked under fixtures.
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