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Antolini Explosion Blue Select quartzite slab with wavy blue, cream, and pink banded movement, polished finish

Explosion Blue is one of the most cinematic quartzites in the Antolini program — a wavy banded movement of blue, cream, and pink that sweeps across the slab like a captured current. The Select grade pushes the contrast and the rhythm, so the wave reads as one continuous, directional gesture rather than scattered figure.

This is a feature-wall stone first. Run vertically, the wave gives a room height and movement; bookmatched, it opens into a mirrored landscape that anchors a space on its own. Polished, the blues deepen and the cream passages stay bright, keeping the drama controlled rather than busy.

Run vertically, the wave gives a room height and movement; bookmatched, it opens into a mirrored landscape that anchors a space on its own.
From the slab arrival, 2025-01

Because vein direction carries the whole composition, orientation matters — this is a slab to lay out deliberately. As a hard quartzite it brings etch resistance and durability, so a statement wall in Explosion Blue is as practical as it is dramatic.

This is Lot EF546, chapas 50–59, polished — a matched run for bookmatched or continuous feature work. On the floor at our South Sepulveda yard; come see the wave at full height.

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