Earlier dispatches —
slabs, arrivals, and craft.
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Latest dispatches
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Porcelain Slab Arrival ·
1.2cm Level by Emil Concrete White Matte Porcelain 63" × 126" — New from Italy
A fresh import from EmilGroup's Sassuolo factory: Level Concrete White large-format porcelain, 1.2cm thickness, 63" × 126" panels, matte finish — a quiet warm-gray concrete read, on the floor at Royal Stone.
Porcelain slabs in Los Angeles →
Porcelain Slab Arrival ·
1.2cm Patagonia Blue Sodalite Cristallo Porcelain 63" × 126" — New from Italy
A new import of large-format porcelain in the Patagonia Blue Sodalite Cristallo look — saturated cobalt and ink-black fields cut by icy translucent passages and copper-rust veining, 12mm thick, 63" × 126" panels.
Porcelain slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Black Label Platinum Travertine Vein Cut Leathered 66" × 110"
Just landed — Antolini's Black Label Platinum Travertine, vein-cut and leathered. Silver-gray and warm bone stratification with charcoal seams and rust passages. 2cm, 66" × 110". See it installed on a full media wall fireplace surround.
Travertine slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival · Sold Out
2cm Antolini Breccia Capraia Honed Finish YG394 Marble Slab 77″ × 126″
A limited lot of three 2cm Antolini Breccia Capraia YG394 marble slabs in a honed finish, each measuring 77″ × 126″, photographed at Royal Stone and now sold out.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Cristallo Trasviolet Treated DW654 Polished 70″ × 102″
Antolini Cristallo Trasviolet Treated, DW654 — a translucent natural quartz with violet streaks running across a clear white crystalline field. 2cm polished, 70" × 102", from Antolini's Exclusive Collection. Just arrived at Royal Stone.
Cristallo quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Dark Emperador Henraux Honed 69″ × 110″
Antolini Dark Emperador — deep cocoa and caramel grounds threaded by white calcite veining — imported from Italy as 2cm honed and 2cm Flute Texture. 69″ × 110″ on the floor at Royal Stone.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Green Savage Quartzite YG674 Polished 78" × 129"
Just landed from Antolini — deep forest and slate greens cut through by chalk-white quartz veins and bursts of amber and rose. 2cm polished, 78" × 129".
Quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Quartzite Nuage Bianco Honed Finish AO893 Slab 78″ × 123″
Antolini Quartzite Nuage Bianco Honed, lot AO893 — a soft cloud-white quartzite with diffuse gray veining, cut at 2cm and brought up in a honed finish. 78" × 123", just arrived at Royal Stone.
Quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Travertino Platinum Black Label Stratos 69" × 119"
Just landed — Antolini Black Label Travertino Platinum in the Stratos textured finish. Bright ivory and cream stratification with the dimensional linear relief Stratos gives over standard honed or leathered. 2cm, 69" × 119".
Travertine slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Crystal Emerald Patagonia RCMAR58 Honed Quartzite Slab 78″ × 127″
A new 2cm Crystal Emerald Patagonia RCMAR58 honed quartzite slab measuring 78″ × 127″, now at Royal Stone.
Quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Italian Travertine Cross Cut Filled and Honed 72" × 110"
Just landed — a warm cream Italian travertine, cross cut so the bedding reads as soft cloud-like passages, filled and honed for use as a working surface. 2cm, 72" × 110".
Travertine slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Les Quatre Saisons Four Seasons Marble Honed 79″ × 117″
Les Quatre Saisons — the Four Seasons marble — brecciated bands of ivory, blush, bordeaux, and sage green in a single slab. 2cm honed, 79″ × 117″, on the floor at Royal Stone.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Inventory ·
A Look at the Royal Stone Selection, 2025–2026
A look at the range of natural stone, porcelain, grades, and finishes represented at Royal Stone during 2025 and 2026.
Porcelain slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
Antolini Anima YG492 Aqua Crystal Quartzite — Polished, 77″ × 128″
A clear aqua-blue cut from Antolini's Anima program — translucent crystalline quartzite finished to a full polish, Block YG492, 2cm, 77″ × 128″.
Quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Antolini ·
Antolini Collections at Royal Stone in 2026
A look at the Antolini materials imported for the Royal Stone yard and showroom in 2026.
Travertine slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
Blue Onyx Polished
Blue Onyx lands polished at 2cm — a rare cool-toned onyx of icy blue, slate, and white veining that turns luminous when lit from behind.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Antolini ·
Inside the Royal Stone Antolini Program, 2025–2026
A look at the Antolini materials, grades, and finishes represented in the Royal Stone yard during 2025 and 2026.
Travertine slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
White Onyx Select Onice Bianco Polished 72" × 118"
A select-grade White Onyx — Onice Bianco — lands polished at 2cm, 72" × 118". A luminous ivory body with soft translucent banding, sized for full backlit feature walls.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
Calacatta Borghini Gold MAN4499
Fresh off the truck — Calacatta Borghini with warm gold veining drawn across a bright white field. Honed, 2cm, 74" × 111".
Calacatta marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
Calacatta Vagli Gold Super Extra MAN4826
Just landed — the Super Extra grade of Calacatta Vagli, warm gold veining drifting across a luminous white field. Honed, 2cm, 72" × 124".
Calacatta marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
Calacatta Viola Monet MAN4410
New shipment — the painterly Viola Monet cut, soft violet undertones flowing across a cream field. Honed, 2cm, 78" × 126".
Calacatta marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Material Study ·
Book-Matching Explained: Reading Slab Layout
How consecutive slabs are mirrored into book-matched walls and islands — and why slab sequence matters before you buy.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Material Study ·
Calacatta, Carrara, Statuario: Reading White Marble
The three names everyone confuses — what actually separates Calacatta, Carrara, and Statuario, and how to choose between them.
Calacatta marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Material Study ·
Honed vs. Polished: Choosing a Stone Finish
Polished, honed, leathered — what each finish does to color, maintenance, and how a slab reads in the room.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Material Study ·
Is Quartzite Durable? Heat, Scratch, and Etch
How quartzite performance varies by the individual stone, quarry and finish — and what to evaluate before specifying it for a kitchen.
Quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Material Study ·
Quartzite vs. Marble for Kitchen Countertops
A careful comparison of quartzite and marble on a working kitchen counter — hardness, etching, finish, and the importance of evaluating the individual stone.
Quartzite slabs in Los Angeles →
Material Study ·
Sealing and Caring for Natural Stone Countertops
A practical, no-drama guide to sealing, daily cleaning, and living with marble and quartzite countertops.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Antolini Viola Paonazzo Brecciato EG855 Honed Finish Marble Slab 61" × 116"
A new Antolini Viola Paonazzo Brecciato lands honed at 61" × 116" — a bright white field shattered by peach, salmon and rose fragments held by storm-gray and black breccia veining.
Calacatta marble slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Roman Italian Travertine — Vein Cut, Filled & Honed, 63″ × 123″
A fresh Italian lot of classic Roman travertine — vein cut along the bedding plane, voids filled with matched epoxy, surface honed soft. 2cm, 63″ × 123″. On the floor in West Los Angeles, by appointment.
Travertine slabs in Los Angeles →
Slab Arrival ·
2cm Rosso Lepanto Marble Leathered 71" × 126"
An Anatolian red marble — deep oxblood field webbed with bright white calcite veining and the occasional ink-black inclusion. Leathered, 2cm, 71" × 126". With an installed kitchen reference.
Italian marble slabs in Los Angeles →