Blue Louise — known commercially as Van Gogh when Antolini selects the most painterly blocks — is a Brazilian quartzite quarried for movement. This slab earns the Van Gogh name: the field swirls in long curling currents of warm amber and ochre through rose and coral, with cooler slate-blue and graphite pockets pushing in from the edges, and crisp ivory veining tying it all together. It does not read as a stone so much as a painted canvas.

2cm gauge, polished, 75″ × 128″. Brazilian, fully natural quartzite — hard, durable through daily kitchen use, and the right candidate for a single-slab statement: a kitchen island, a fireplace surround, a powder room vanity where the whole slab reads as one composition. Bookmatching is possible but the slab is strong enough alone that most projects will not need it.

Pairs with unlacquered brass and aged bronze, with rift white oak in a mid-tone, walnut, and warm lime-plaster walls. Quiet cabinetry is essential — the slab is the painting, the room is the frame.

On the floor at 2303 South Sepulveda. Walk it in daylight before you commit — Van Gogh photographs strong but reads even stronger in person.