You should know that the Statuary family, though not very large, expresses itself in various characters.... If the most important and well-known marble of this family is the Classical White Statuary (the marble of Michelangelo's “Pietà", to be clear), no less for Beauty will be the Breccia Medicea (so much so that it could bear the name of the most illustrious family of the Renaissance), and again the fascinating Brecccia Violetta (of the Breche Violette, the Ateliers des Arts, the most important Studios of world stylism, were crazy about it..), the Calacatta marble or our Paonazzetto.
This is the Ghota of marbles of the Apuan Alps, which means the Ghota of marbles at the WORLD level.
And how is it, you may ask, that the most modest fireplace in the 19th century world had the audacity to wear such noble cloth!
It is as if the FIAT 500 mounted a Ferrari engine or if the purge worker did his work dressed in sequins....
Well, I don't find anything wrong with it, not least because our “Saucer” (that's its nickname among insiders) is very nice (like the 500 FIAT in the 1960s..) and has been the Pompadour family's best-selling fireplace for more than a century.. Normal then, that just as there was the 500 Abarth (it cost a fortune), there could also be a Saucer Fuoriserie..Paonazzetto marble, in fact, has always cost a fortune and, just to understand its historical success, it was the marble of choice for Roman emperors for their busts or statues..
Why is it called Paonazzetto!
Because, in the very white paste of its Classical White Statuary outcrops elegant and subtle gray veining (sometimes “aiming” almost at bleu) which are plant fossils... And, as it happens, said veins are the preferential pathway of ironand/or sulfur oxides, in fascinating straw and sulfur colors ...
AND THOSE SUBTLE, ELEGANT VEINS IN THE FINEST COLORS, LYING ON THE PUREST STATUARY'S WHITE SEA, CANNOT FAIL TO FASCINATE ANYONE WHO ADMIRES THEM...
PARIS, BELLE EPOQUE ERA (LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY), PERFECT PRESERVATION.
