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Can I specify Coffee Wood Marble for a curved wall?

Yes, and it is one of the harder jobs for this stone, because the panels are cut to a radius and the figure has to stay straight while the face curves away from it. It is done from one block and cut in sequence.
A finished interior with dark wood-grain stone cladding on the walls, a matching stone floor, dark doors and a black sculpture on a plinth
Wall cladding in a room, the panels running the full height of the wall.
Hands holding a rectangular cut stone sample with a finished edge against the face of a large polished marble slab
The edge of a cut-to-size piece, which is what a wall panel is before it is fixed.

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

The curve What it needs
The panels Cut to a radius, from one block, in sequence
The joints Vertical, and the figure carried across them
The fixing Anchored to a curved backing frame
The choice of block A block whose figure will read around the curve

Why it behaves the way it does

A curve is the case where a straight figure either works or does not, because the eye follows the curve and the lines have to be at the right angle to it throughout. It is also the case where the cutting yield is worst, because a curved panel is cut from a rectangle with the offcut on one side.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We cut to a drawing the client has approved, and a curved wall is the drawing that most deserves to be checked on site before the saw.

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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Yes, and it is one of the harder jobs for this stone, because the panels are cut to a radius and the figure has to stay straight while the face curves away from it. It is done from one block and cut in sequence.

The figures

The curve What it needs
The panels Cut to a radius, from one block, in sequence
The joints Vertical, and the figure carried across them
The fixing Anchored to a curved backing frame
The choice of block A block whose figure will read around the curve

Why

A curve is the case where a straight figure either works or does not, because the eye follows the curve and the lines have to be at the right angle to it throughout. It is also the case where the cutting yield is worst, because a curved panel is cut from a rectangle with the offcut on one side.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We cut to a drawing the client has approved, and a curved wall is the drawing that most deserves to be checked on site before the saw.

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