Hard stone Table top. Model D3230. Ø120 cm

Description

Tabletop made ​​of different kinds of marble and with precious hard stone embedded.

Note:

• The nature of this object, and its special packaging, makes the calculation of the total shipping costs not possible automatically. It may have additional cost depending on the exact address of destination (Country, City, Zip Code, Street, Number and Floor and the existence or not of elevator). To know the full costs accurately, you need to make a previous consultation by email.

What Hard Stones Are:

Hard stones are a technique of decorative arts consisting of the embedded by intarsia of marbles or semiprecious stones such as jade, quartz, agate, jasper, lapis lazuli, chalcedony, etc., forming a pictorial composition. Intarsia consists of embedding on a compact surface thin stone or marble tiles, cut and fitted forming diverse images or compositions, attached with tail or dough and subsequently polished.

This technique began in Rome in the sixteenth century and reached maturity in Florence, hence it is also called Florentine mosaic.