Architecture and design go hand in hand in the evolution of Margraf, a company with over a century of history that has made the crafting of marble its forte, matching it with technological innovation to create works of architecture and furnishings of extraordinary refinement. From the outset, raw material and research have been the constant themes of this reality, ever since the foundation dating back to 1906, when the firm then known as “Industria Marmi Vicentini” extracted blocks of marble from local quarries and worked with them in the nearby production plant. The heritage of Margraf has led today to an immense variety of blocks of marble and natural stone, Italian and international, taken from international proprietary quarries and other sites around the world, allowing the company’s collection to include over 400 different types of stone.
Notre Dame by Margraf
The material is carefully processed, also relying on artisanal techniques applied to industry, to bring out its intrinsic beauty and to fully display its expressive potential. The results are surfaces that generate and refurbish large buildings, façades and interiors, but also one-offs or small numbered editions of three-dimensional facings and décor complements, formulated in the company’s Innovation Lab, where designers, artists and technicians grant form to new ways of understanding marble.
Notre Dame by Margraf
Fior di Pesco Carnico by Margraf
It is precisely this constant focus on experimentation combined with the beauty of materials that brings out the best in the fine marble varieties of the Margraf Selection, proposals developed for high quality, colors and sensorial allure, enabling personalization of all design contexts. One sublime example is the Fior di Pesco Carnico® marble, a Margraf exclusive since 1927, obtained from the only quarry in the world located at Forni Avoltri, in the province of Udine. This marble stands out for its light shadings – from white to gray to pale pink – and for the variety of the grain. It is strong, ductile, versatile, ready for indoor and outdoor use, also in combinations with other types of marble.
Games of colors are the key feature of Notre Dame, a marble with a pale background and dark veins running along the surface. The result is a vibrant, dynamic image, which is more or less emphatic depending on the finish applied – shiny, polished or brushed.
Polaris Gold by Margraf
Polaris Gold by Margraf
Finally, precious brightness is the earmark of Polaris Gold, a rhythmical surface of veins varying from yellow to green, in a mixture of shadings and impressions. Another Margraf exclusive, this material combines a forceful aesthetic character with high resistance, making this marble ideal for any context, indoors or outdoors.
Not by chance, Fior di Pesco Carnico®, Notre Dame and Polaris Gold are the varieties chosen to give form to the first works in the Frammenti collection, sculptural and artistic pieces that made their debut at the Salone del Mobile in Milan and return as protagonists at Marmomac. Designed by Raffaello Galiotto, the Frammenti collection takes direct inspiration from the architecture of antiquity, now visible as ruins at archaeological sites.
Peloponneso, Frammenti collection by Margraf
Palladio, Frammenti collection by Margraf
The designer recovers this lost classicism to pay homage to a noble material such as marble, generating tables, seating and columns. At Marmomac the series gains three new sculptural works – Toscana, Vir and Virgo – made by assembling fragments of three new types of marble: Breccia Bohemien, Botticino Classico and Bianco Covelano. A continuing exploration of the material and its infinite symbolic power.
