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Antolini Viola Paonazzo Brecciato EG855 honed marble slab lifted on the crane at Royal Stone Los Angeles, white field with peach, salmon and rose fragments bound by storm-grey and black breccia veining

Viola Paonazzo Brecciato is the painterly break in the Viola family — where Calacatta Viola sweeps in long violet veins, the Brecciato cut shatters the field into angular fragments of cream, peach and rose-pink stone bound by storm-grey and near-black breccia webbing. EG855 is a strong Antolini selection: the fragments stay large and legible, the white ground stays bright between them, and the dark matrix reads as drawn ink rather than shadow.

It is the finish Royal Stone carries for the Brecciato grades across the yard.
From the slab arrival, 2025

Honed. The matte finish is essential on a brecciato at this contrast — polish pushes the dark binding material glassy and the peach fragments toward neon, while honed keeps the palette grounded and lets the breccia read as pigment. It is the finish Royal Stone carries for the Brecciato grades across the yard.

Cut at 2cm and measuring 61" × 116", the slab is sized for a full-height feature wall, a fireplace surround, a powder vanity face or a bar back where the brecciation can be read at scale. Walk it in daylight at the yard — the peach-to-rose palette shifts under warm and cool light, and the eye reads the fragment map differently from ten feet away than at arm's length.

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