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How do I choose between a Coffee Wood Marble slab and a panel for a wall?

A panel if the wall has a drawing, because the figure has to be matched and the joints numbered. A slab if the wall is simple and the substrate is good, because a slab can be cut on site and a panel cannot be re-cut once it is numbered.
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 wall Slab or panel
A known elevation with a book-match Panel, and the layout is approved on paper
A simple wall, panels to be decided on site Slab, cut on site
A wall that may change Panel, because a slab can be re-cut and a panel cannot
A wall above a doorway or a corner Panel, because the mitre has to be planned

Why it behaves the way it does

The distinction is reversibility. A slab that has not been cut is a raw material that can still become anything; a panel that has been cut to a drawing is one specific piece. Which one you want depends on how certain you are of the drawing.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We supply both, and the cut-to-size order is always against a drawing the client has approved.

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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A panel if the wall has a drawing, because the figure has to be matched and the joints numbered. A slab if the wall is simple and the substrate is good, because a slab can be cut on site and a panel cannot be re-cut once it is numbered.

The figures

The wall Slab or panel
A known elevation with a book-match Panel, and the layout is approved on paper
A simple wall, panels to be decided on site Slab, cut on site
A wall that may change Panel, because a slab can be re-cut and a panel cannot
A wall above a doorway or a corner Panel, because the mitre has to be planned

Why

The distinction is reversibility. A slab that has not been cut is a raw material that can still become anything; a panel that has been cut to a drawing is one specific piece. Which one you want depends on how certain you are of the drawing.

What these figures are, and what they are not

We supply both, and the cut-to-size order is always against a drawing the client has approved.

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