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How do I know which Coffee Wood Marble slab to choose?

Choose for the figure first and the colour second, and look at the slab standing up rather than laid flat. The figure is what the room will be read as, and a slab seen flat on a yard frame is not how it will be seen.
A row of roughly six squared stone blocks standing in the sand at the foot of a quarry, each one cut flat and marked with a red number on its face. Behind them the quarry is cut into benches up the hillside, and wind turbines stand on the ridge above under a blue sky.
The cutting floor at the quarry, with the sawn blocks standing in the sand.
A quarry face with the beds marked up by hand in coloured paint. Reading from the top the marks say: 1 white vein, 2 elegant black, 3 grey wood grain, 4 coffee, 5 elegant black, 6 elegant black, 7 black and white, with the red outline around the overburden at the top of the face. Coffee Wood Marble is the fourth bed down.
The face of the quarry with the beds marked in the field.
Marble slabs standing upright on wooden frames inside the open back of a shipping container, strapped and ready to load
Slabs loaded for shipment.

Reference photographs. They show the material and the finish; they are not photographs of goods we made, and the colour on screen is not a colour-match.

The figures, and where each one comes from

What to look at Why
The lines running across the face That is the figure the room will have
Whether the lines stay parallel across the whole width A slab that drifts cannot be matched across a wall
The colour under a raking light A slab that looks even flat may band under raking light
How many panels you need from it A wall wider than the slab is book-matched, and that is a layout

Why it behaves the way it does

The three boards on the quarry page are photographed side by side so that the choice between them is a comparison. A slab is a bigger decision than a board, and the criteria are the same: the figure first, the tone second.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We send photographs of the actual slabs and we will say how we would cut them. The choice between slabs is the client's, and it is the right one to have on them.

Measured data sheets and test reports

If you are specifying this

We have not published products against this question yet. Send us the process, thickness and quantity and we will quote it against what we can actually form, rather than against a catalogue.

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Choose for the figure first and the colour second, and look at the slab standing up rather than laid flat. The figure is what the room will be read as, and a slab seen flat on a yard frame is not how it will be seen.

The figures

What to look at Why
The lines running across the face That is the figure the room will have
Whether the lines stay parallel across the whole width A slab that drifts cannot be matched across a wall
The colour under a raking light A slab that looks even flat may band under raking light
How many panels you need from it A wall wider than the slab is book-matched, and that is a layout

Why

The three boards on the quarry page are photographed side by side so that the choice between them is a comparison. A slab is a bigger decision than a board, and the criteria are the same: the figure first, the tone second.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We send photographs of the actual slabs and we will say how we would cut them. The choice between slabs is the client’s, and it is the right one to have on them.

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