Where the Antico reading of Calacatta Viola is warm and antique, this Super Extra selection is bold and open. White clasts sit in a grey-and-gold network, the brecciation large and confident across the slab — the most dramatic, gallery-scale expression of the Viola family. 'Super Extra' is the highest grade Antolini's Italian factories assign, reserved for slabs with the cleanest clasts and the most balanced movement.
Polished, the gold seams catch the light and the white clasts read crisp against the darker network, so the slab carries a room without any other competing material. It is a stone for a single decisive gesture — a bookmatched fireplace, an island waterfall, a hotel-lobby wall.
“Polished, the gold seams catch the light and the white clasts read crisp against the darker network, so the slab carries a room without any other competing material.”
As a marble it asks for the usual care: seal it, expect a living patina, and place it where that patina is welcome. Specified well, it only improves with age.
This is Lot ED423, slab 39B, polished. A standout slab on the floor at our Los Angeles yard — best judged in person at full scale.
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