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Matching Amazonite Quartzite With Other Stones: A Practical Order

Match the slabs to each other first and the room second. The order matters more than the palette.

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Amazonite Quartzite slab, batch AMG43-01, 1650 x 1520 mm, warm gold and brown matrix carrying teal-green patches
Amazonite Quartzite slab, batch AMG43-01, 1650 x 1520 mm, warm gold and brown matrix carrying teal-green patches

The advice we give most often on this stone is about sequence rather than colour. It sounds pedantic and it is not, because the order in which decisions get made determines whether the result looks deliberate.

Step one: the slabs to each other

Before any other material is considered, decide which slabs work together. This stone varies more between blocks than a warm white does, so two slabs that look like a family in one room can look like two different stones under different light.

Ask to see the actual slabs, laid out as they would be installed, standing rather than flat. Flat slabs read differently: a pattern that looks busy lying down can look calm on a wall, and the reverse happens too.

Step two: the neutral it sits against

Because the stone carries a strong colour, what surrounds it should not compete. Warm neutrals, off-whites, timber and simple metals let the colour read as intentional. A second strongly coloured stone nearby makes both of them look busy and tends to make the blue-green look greyer than it is.

If the design already contains another accent colour, this stone is usually better moved to a surface the eye reaches after that colour, rather than put beside it.

Step three: the metals and the fixing

Brass and warm bronze sit naturally with the gold banding. Stainless steel is not wrong but it pushes the stone cooler, which is a decision rather than a default. Blackened metal reads well against the pale end of the range and loses the banding at a distance.

These are the small decisions that take a long time to change once the stone is installed, which is why they are worth settling on a sample rather than in a meeting.

Where this leaves a specification

We can send a book-matched pair plus a small-format sample so the decision gets made with the material in front of you, not from a photograph. Sample requests go through the sample page and cost the courier plus the material.

Questions this article answers

Where does Amazonite Quartzite come from?

From the Paraiba region of northern Brazil. The supply comes from a restricted deposit, which is why it is quoted lot by lot rather than as a standing stock item, and why a run for a single installation is matched before anything is cut.

How is Amazonite Quartzite usually used?

As a statement surface: mitred waterfall islands, luxury kitchen and bar tops, book-matched feature walls, and small-format backsplashes. The strength of the colour is the reason it is specified in one place rather than throughout a room, and a waterfall is the application that shows the movement best because the mitre presents two faces at once.

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