Statement stone,
for the Hills.
Backlit quartzite, translucent onyx and bold Calacatta for the view homes along Mulholland, the Bird Streets and Laurel Canyon — the slabs that hold a wall of glass and a city below it. Walked in natural light at the yard before the cut is made.
On the Hollywood Hills
The Hills brief is usually about one wall: a kitchen island or a fireplace that has to compete with a hundred-and-eighty-degree view and still win.
Work from the Bird Streets and Sunset Plaza up to Mulholland and out through Laurel and Nichols Canyon tends to be modern — pocketing glass, double-height rooms, indoor-outdoor kitchens — and the stone is asked to do something dramatic. We carry the translucent quartzites and onyx that read best backlit, the bold-veined Calacattas that anchor a minimalist room, and the Antolini Black Label blocks that nobody else on the Westside has. The point of the yard is that the designer chooses the exact slab, in the light it will live in.
In Practice
How the work
tends to go.
- The slabs the Hills tend to choose
- Cristallo and crystal quartzites for backlit islands and bar walls. Onyx — perla, rose, honey — for powder rooms and feature panels lit from behind. Calacatta Borghini and Viola when a clean modern kitchen wants one piece of stone to be the entire statement. Taj Mahal and Costa Smeralda quartzite for the harder-wearing kitchen surfaces a working family actually uses.
- Built for the view, and the light
- A Hills room changes character from morning haze to gold hour to the lights coming up over the basin. We pull the shortlisted slabs and lean them where the project’s glazing will fall, because a quartzite that reads cool white at noon can turn warm and amber at sunset. For backlit installations we test the actual slab on a light table so the veining the architect is buying is the veining that glows.
- Bookmatched feature walls
- The Hills request we hear most is a single bookmatched fireplace or kitchen wall, floor to ceiling, framed by glass. That needs two to four sequential slabs from one block — held together, photographed for the file, and removed from circulation until the elevation is confirmed. We hold sequential blocks for exactly this; they are not improvised at point of sale.
- Access and the canyon run
- Many Hills lots are tight, steep, single-lane approaches with limited staging. We coordinate slab delivery to the fabricator and crane or stair access with the GC before anything leaves the yard, and we schedule around canyon traffic windows so a full slab is not sitting on a hillside street at rush hour.
For the Hollywood Hills
The stone families specified most often for view-home kitchens, baths and feature walls.
- Cristallo Quartzite
Translucent quartzite that comes alive backlit — the first call for Hills islands, bar walls and powder-room panels lit from behind.
- Calacatta
Borghini, Gold and Monet — the bold-veined Calacatta family that anchors a minimalist, glass-walled modern kitchen.
- Taj Mahal Quartzite
The warm, durable quartzite for working kitchens that still has to photograph — harder-wearing than marble, softer than granite in feel.
- Antolini Exclusive & Black Label
The rare blocks and translucent feature stones, direct through our Antolini relationship in Verona — the pieces other LA yards cannot source.
Logistics
From West LA to the Hills
The yard at 2303 South Sepulveda is roughly twenty-five to thirty-five minutes from the central Hills depending on the canyon you take — Laurel, Coldwater or the 405 to Mulholland. Fabricator pickups are by appointment. Deliveries to steep or single-lane lots are coordinated with the GC and site supervision in place; we do not drop and leave on a hillside residence. Designer and homeowner showroom visits are Monday through Friday by appointment, with unhurried time on the floor.
2303 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles · ~25–35 min from the Hollywood Hills