The Campan marble is a type of marble taken from the quarries of the Campan site located in the high valley of Ardour in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées. There are different varieties, all of which can be identified through the marked dark green veins – the Campan rubané marble, the green Campan marble, the pink […]
Category: Marble
Yellow Lamartine marble
Yellow Lamartine marble, which takes its name from the local owner, is quarried in Pratz in the Haut-Jura which the most important is the quarry of Champied, operated by the Company of Molinges marble works between 1845 and 1930 under the direction of Nicolas Gauthier. It is less a marble than a marble stone yellow […]
Onyx
The Algerian Onyx – not to be confused with onyx, a variety of agate – is a kind of "marble" used in Europe in the second half of the 19th century after the onyx quarries in Algeria were rediscovered in 1849 by Jean Baptiste Del Monte, a Carrara marble manufacturer, during archaeological excavations. From then […]
Malachite
The nineteenth century knows a great trend of objects plated with malachite, a beautiful intense green mineral, whose appearance resembles a veined marble. Used as a block for small objects, the technique of the "Russian mosaic" allows, from the end of the 18th century, to cover large surfaces of malachite, for luxurious and original commissions. […]
Vert d’Estours marble
Extracted in the valley of Estours, a beautiful valley of the Ariège department in France, the Vert d’Estours marble has a fresh spring color. It is used in the decorative arts for the realization of fireplaces, pedestals of statuettes, shelfs of furniture pieces, etc. Unlike the Campan marble, the Vert d’Estours marble has an ivory-colored […]