Antolini Bamboo finish — vertical ribbed natural stone

Antolini Textures⁺ · Finish Glossary

The Finish Language of Textures+.

Twenty-five cuts that turn natural stone into fabric, fluted column, quarried face, drawn line. Each defined, each shown on a reference stone, with notes on where to specify it.

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A Note on Reading Finish

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A swatch is a starting point. Light, scale, and the stone underneath change the finish as much as the cut does.

The swatches below show the finish on a reference stone — usually the lot Antolini uses in the catalogue. Specified on a different lot, the same finish will read different. Bamboo on Borghini reads as marble column; Bamboo on Patagonia Original Extra reads as ridged mineral. The cut is the same; the field decides everything.

Three things to bring with you when you walk the samples: the lighting plan for the room, the scale of the surface, and a direction. Vertical finishes (Bamboo, Flut, Ribbed, Rivenplus, Rain) want a clear vertical run. Horizontal finishes (Swing, Stratos, Striato) want a clear horizontal run. Carved finishes (Petra, Hard Rock, Gap) want grazing light from above.

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01 · Family

Fluted

Vertical channels cut across the face. The classical column language run through marble, quartzite and granite.

Fluted Finish

Bamboo

A narrow, tight vertical flute. Reads as bamboo cane in stone.

A repeated vertical channel — narrower and more frequent than Flut — cut across the full face. The eye registers a column-row, the hand registers a soft ridge. At distance, the stone's vein still reads; up close, the texture takes over.

Where to Specify

Vertical surfaces — fireplace surrounds, vanity faces, wine-room walls, full-height entryway panels. Wraps a column beautifully. Avoid on horizontal counters; debris collects in the channels.

Offered On

Borghini White Vein, Bianco Lasa Covelano, Onda del Mare, Irish Green, White Super, Belvedere White Vein, plus most quartzites and granites in the program.

Fluted Finish

Flut

The classical fluted column — wider channels, deeper shadow.

Wider and deeper than Bamboo. A half-round channel repeated across the face, the way a Doric column is fluted. Light moves down the channel and pools in the shadow line; the stone's vein crosses the flute as a second pattern.

Where to Specify

The default fluted language. Reception desks, bar fronts, kitchen islands seen from the seated side, hospitality casework. Works on most stones in the program — the cleaner the field, the cleaner the flute reads.

Offered On

Offered across the program — every marble, quartzite, granite and quartz lot in the catalogue.

Fluted Finish

Ribbed

A square-shouldered rib — sharper edge than Flut, harder shadow.

Where Flut is half-round, Ribbed is rectangular — vertical bars with crisp shoulders separated by flat valleys. The shadow line is hard, not soft. Reads more architectural, less classical.

Where to Specify

Contemporary architecture, gallery walls, retail fitouts. Pairs with metal cabinetry and minimal hardware. Strong directional reading — specify with the vein direction in mind.

Offered On

Offered across the program. Particularly strong on directional stones — Onda del Mare, Calacatta Borghini — where the flow of the vein runs against the rib.

Fluted Finish

Rivenplus

The finest vertical rib in the program — close, dense, fabric-like.

A very tight micro-flute. From three feet, reads almost as a brushed surface; up close, the parallel channels are clearly cut. Where Bamboo speaks as cane and Flut as column, Rivenplus speaks as woven fabric.

Where to Specify

Where you want the touch of texture without committing to a visible flute. Bathroom walls, headboard panels, the back wall of a powder room where light is low and the surface should glow rather than declare.

Offered On

Most stones in the program. Especially refined on white marbles — Bianco Lasa Covelano, Borghini, White Super.

02 · Family

Carved

Surfaces broken — softly waved, gouged, split. The stone treated as quarried material rather than finished slab.

Carved Finish

Swing

A horizontal wave. Stone that has been brushed by water.

A gentle horizontal undulation, low amplitude, repeating across the face. The vein of the stone runs into the wave and rolls over it. Reads as a quiet movement — the stone breathing rather than performing.

Where to Specify

Long horizontal runs — full-height kitchen backsplashes, hallway walls, fireplace cheeks. Pairs with linear lighting that runs perpendicular to the wave; the light catches each crest in sequence.

Offered On

Bianco Lasa Covelano, White Super, Onda del Mare (where the natural wave of the stone meets the cut wave), Cristallo Traslux, plus several quartzites.

Carved Finish

Petra

A quarried, split-rock face. The stone as it leaves the cliff.

A rough, irregular, broken plane — the way a stone reads when it has been cleaved from its bed rather than sawn. No two square feet are identical; the texture is geological, not patterned. The vein is interrupted by the split.

Where to Specify

Cladding. Exterior walls, foyer feature walls, wine-cellar faces, fireplace surrounds where the stone needs to feel ancient rather than finished. Not for any surface that takes hand contact.

Offered On

Most quartzites, the granites, Travertino Platinum Black Label, Basalt Italiano. Cuts through harder lots cleanly.

Carved Finish · Reserved

Hard Rock

The Patagonia flagship — broken cleavage, mineral fracture face.

A coarser, more violent split than Petra — the surface reads as if the stone has been broken open along its natural cleavage. On Patagonia Original Extra, this is the finish that gives the stone its name in the program — the dark field cracked open to show ice-quartz crystal underneath.

Where to Specify

Backlit feature walls. Showrooms. Hospitality. Any installation where the stone needs to be the architectural event. Not horizontal.

Offered On

Patagonia Original Extra (the home of this finish), plus several quartzites and granites.

In the Program

Strongly associated with Patagonia in the program.

Gap finish on Antolini stone — irregular gouged interruptions

Carved Finish

Gap

A field broken by irregular gouged openings.

The polished or honed field is interrupted by carved-out channels and openings — irregular in shape, not in rhythm. Reads as if pieces of the stone have been lifted out. The contrast between the smooth field and the carved void is the point.

Where to Specify

Feature walls where the stone itself becomes the artwork. Works with grazing light — a directional fixture brings the void into shadow against the field.

Offered On

Offered across the program. Particularly graphic on dark stones.

03 · Family

Quarried

The honest matte family. Abraded, eroded, anti-slip — quieter cuts where the texture should not perform.

Quarried Finish

Sandblasted

Even, matte, abraded. The quietest texture in the program.

A uniformly abraded surface — no directional cut, no relief. The colour deepens, the shine vanishes, the hand is grit-soft. Reads as the stone exhaled.

Where to Specify

Exterior, pool surrounds, wet rooms where slip resistance matters. The honest matte for any stone that would otherwise want to be polished.

Offered On

Offered across most quartzites, granites, and the basalt.

Quarried Finish

Safe

A honed surface with grip — the anti-slip cut.

Visually close to honed, but with a micro-texture worked into the surface for traction. The stone looks finished; the foot reads grip. Antolini's answer to "I want honed Calacatta but I need it on a pool deck."

Where to Specify

Wet floors. Pool surrounds, showers, outdoor terraces. Any horizontal surface where polished and honed would be unsafe but a rougher cut would feel wrong.

Offered On

Offered broadly across the marble and quartzite program.

Quarried Finish

Hydro

Water-eroded — a surface the river has worked.

A soft, irregular pitting cut into the face, mimicking the slow erosion of water. The vein of the stone surfaces and disappears under the wear. Reads as old, even when freshly cut.

Where to Specify

Reception desks, bar fronts, bath surrounds — any horizontal where the texture should read as natural wear rather than as a deliberate finish.

Offered On

Borghini White Vein, White Super, several quartzites.

Quarried Finish

Super Hydro

Hydro pushed further — deeper voids, stronger relief.

The Hydro language with more aggression. The pitting is deeper, the shadows are stronger, the stone looks weather-beaten. Where Hydro suggests a slow river, Super Hydro suggests a fast one.

Where to Specify

Wall installations where Hydro would read too quiet. Foyer cladding, lobby features, restaurant entries. Not for surfaces in regular contact.

Offered On

Bianco Lasa Covelano, Dalmata, the lighter quartzites.

04 · Family

Geological

Layers and strata cut into the face. The stone reads as bedded sediment, not as slab.

Geological Finish

Stratos

Horizontal sedimentary layers cut into the face.

A horizontal strata read — repeating layers of varying thickness, cut to suggest the bedded sediments of a quarry face. Reads as geology rather than texture. The stone's own vein continues across the layers as a second story.

Where to Specify

Long horizontal feature walls. Reception backdrops. Restaurant accent walls. Specify with the strata running with the architecture, not against.

Offered On

Borghini White Vein, Bianco Lasa Covelano, Onda del Mare, several quartzites. Particularly clean on Onda where the natural wave reads against the strict horizontal.

Geological Finish · Reserved

Stratos Oblique

The Stratos language run on a diagonal — exclusive to White Super.

Stratos cut at an angle. The sedimentary read becomes a diagonal across the face. More dynamic than the horizontal cut, harder to specify across a long run (the angles need to meet at corners). Antolini reserves this cut to White Super.

Where to Specify

Single-panel feature walls. Headboard backs. Any surface where the diagonal reads as deliberate rather than as a continuous architectural language.

Offered On

White Super.

In the Program

Reserved to White Super in the Textures+ program.

Geological Finish · Reserved

Striato

A finer horizontal striation — drawn lines rather than layers.

Tighter and more linear than Stratos. The face reads as if a fine comb has been pulled horizontally across it. On translucent stones, backlight passes through the striation as a banded glow.

Where to Specify

Backlit walls. Display backs. Behind alcove shelving where light from above grazes the striation. The translucent finish on Cristallo Traslux is one of the program's strongest backlit cuts.

Offered On

Cielo, Cristallo Traslux.

In the Program

Reserved to Cielo and Cristallo Traslux — the program's translucent stones.

Geological Finish · Reserved

Flexwaves

A dimensional book-matched wave — installation, not surface.

Not a swatch finish but a dimensional installation language. Slabs are cut into staggered, slightly waved relief panels and book-matched across a wall, producing a sculpted surface that reads as a single continuous wave from across the room. Reserved to Bianco Lasa Covelano in this program — the marble whose grain reads quietly enough for the dimensional relief to be the event.

Where to Specify

Feature walls only. Reception, lobby, gallery, hospitality entry. Specified by elevation drawing rather than by sample.

Offered On

Bianco Lasa Covelano Fantastico.

In the Program

Reserved to Bianco Lasa Covelano Fantastico — by installation drawing.

05 · Family

Fabric

Textile in stone — tufting, quilting, weave. Reserved cuts for the program's quietest lots.

Fabric Finish · Reserved

Capitonné

Diamond tufting. Upholstery cut into stone.

A diamond-pattern relief, raised at the corners of each diamond and sunk at the centres, the way a tufted leather headboard reads. The fabric reference is direct — this is the cut that gave the program its Haute Couture framing. Antolini reserves it to two of the quietest stones in the catalogue so the texture does the speaking.

Where to Specify

Headboard walls. Vanity fronts. Dressing-room walls. Boutique fitting rooms. Anywhere a leather Chesterfield would otherwise live.

Offered On

Afyon White Selected, Nero Marquina (Soft Quartzite).

In the Program

Reserved to Afyon White Selected and Nero Marquina.

Fabric Finish · Reserved

Quilt

Padded fabric in stone — softer relief than Capitonné.

Where Capitonné carves a sharp diamond grid, Quilt suggests a softer padded surface — round-edged squares with a low relief between them. Reads less formal than Capitonné, more domestic.

Where to Specify

Bedroom walls, lounge backs, intimate scale where Capitonné would read too theatrical.

Offered On

Afyon White Selected, Nero Marquina (Soft Quartzite).

In the Program

Reserved to Afyon White Selected and Nero Marquina.

Fabric Finish

Linen

A woven cross-hatch — fine linen cloth in stone.

Two sets of fine parallel cuts crossed at right angles, scaled to suggest linen weave. From standing distance reads as a soft matte; up close the warp and weft are clearly present. Touch-soft.

Where to Specify

Bedroom walls, wardrobe backs, low-light hospitality. Pairs with linen drapery, oak millwork, soft wools.

Offered On

Bianco Lasa Covelano, Dalmata, Cristallo Traslux, others.

06 · Family

Drawn

Line work — etched, streaked, fibre-laid. The cut reads as drawing rather than texture.

Drawn Finish

Sketch

Etched line work — drawing on stone.

Fine etched lines worked into the face — irregular, hand-drawn in character rather than mechanical. On Dalmata (a black-green marble with white calligraphic veining) the etched line reads as ink drawing on glass.

Where to Specify

Single-panel applications where the stone reads as artwork. Powder-room walls, alcoves, behind freestanding tubs.

Offered On

Dalmata, Irish Green, several quartzites.

Drawn Finish

Rain

Vertical streaks — rain running on a window.

Long, fine vertical lines, slightly irregular in their spacing — the way water streaks on glass. Less mechanical than Bamboo, more drawn than Flut. The stone's vein crosses the rain as a horizontal interruption.

Where to Specify

Bath walls, shower surrounds, full-height entryway panels. Specifically beautiful in spaces where actual rain or shower water will read against the cut texture.

Offered On

Irish Green, Dalmata, several quartzites.

Drawn Finish · Reserved

Papirus

Papyrus-fibre surface — laid fibres read in the stone.

A fine fibrous pattern cut into the face, scaled to read as papyrus. New Galaxy — a black granite with mineral flecks — under this finish reads as the night sky printed on parchment.

Where to Specify

Wall installations. Behind shelving. Library walls. Any quiet vertical where the field should read as material rather than texture.

Offered On

New Galaxy.

In the Program

Reserved to New Galaxy in the program.

07 · Family

Mineral

One-off cuts reserved to a single stone: Metal on Irish Green and Belvedere, Leather on Patagonia, Urban on New Galaxy.

Mineral Finish · Reserved

Metal

A raised coin-cell grid. Stone with metal armour.

A repeating raised square cell across the face — reads as small metal plates riveted to the surface. The stone underneath is visible at the cell tops and in the recessed channels; the texture turns the field into something that looks engineered.

Where to Specify

Statement walls. Bar fronts. Hospitality entry. Any surface where the stone needs to read with the weight of metal.

Offered On

Irish Green, Belvedere White Vein.

In the Program

Reserved to Irish Green and Belvedere White Vein.

Mineral Finish · Reserved

Leather

A soft pitted hide — leathered, but the Patagonia cut.

Antolini's leathered cut, particular to Patagonia in this program. Softer pitting than the standard leathered finish, with the colour deepening to its full saturation. The mineral veining in Patagonia reads stronger after this cut than after any other.

Where to Specify

Kitchen islands, bar fronts, vanity tops on Patagonia. The horizontal surface where leathered Patagonia is at its best.

Offered On

Patagonia Original Extra.

In the Program

In the Textures+ program, reserved to Patagonia.

Mineral Finish · Reserved

Urban

Concrete-like abrasion — stone as worn pavement.

A flat, evenly abraded surface that reads as polished concrete or worn city stone. Quieter than sandblasted, with more directional micro-texture. On New Galaxy, the mineral flecks surface as bright points against the worn field.

Where to Specify

Floors. Commercial counters. Reception desks. Any horizontal that wants to read industrial rather than precious.

Offered On

New Galaxy.

In the Program

Reserved to New Galaxy in the program.

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The Finish Language of Textures+.

Fluted

Bamboo

Flut

Ribbed

Rivenplus

Carved

Swing

Petra

Hard Rock

Gap

Quarried

Sandblasted

Safe

Hydro

Super Hydro

Geological

Stratos

Stratos Oblique

Striato

Flexwaves

Fabric

Capitonné

Quilt

Linen

Drawn

Sketch

Rain

Papirus

Mineral

Metal

Leather

Urban

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