Forty-two slabs of Select-grade Taj Mahal arrived this week from Antolini in a leather finish, cut 2cm at 79" × 130". The leather is taken across the full face, not brushed — a fine, even tooth that lifts the warm ivory ground and reads matte under both daylight and warm interior light.

Leather is the finish designers reach for on outdoor kitchens, primary baths, and master island tops that need to hide water spotting and fingerprints. It carries the same maintenance behavior as honed Taj Mahal — sealed, acid-tolerant, kitchen-honest — with a tactile surface that hands and feet read as soft rather than slick.

This arrival, together with the thirty-eight honed and twenty-eight polished Select slabs already on the floor, makes Royal Stone the deepest Taj Mahal inventory in Los Angeles this season. Designers can specify a single field across polished island, honed perimeter and leather waterfall — all from consecutive blocks of the same lot — without sourcing from three different yards.

Walking the racks in Los Angeles. Slabs can be held for a specific project.