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What is Coffee Wood Marble?

Coffee Wood Marble is a natural marble from Guizhou Province in southwest China, quarried in a belt of wood-grain marbles. Its figure runs in straight parallel lines like timber grain, which is why it is sold as an alternative to wood cladding in hotel and commercial interiors.
Three stone sample boards laid side by side on a white surface, labelled in marker pen dark coffee, light coffee and dark grey wood
The three sample boards as they came off the saw, hand-labelled dark coffee, light coffee and dark grey.
Three polished stone pieces laid side by side on a white surface, labelled dark coffee, light coffee and dark grey
The same three boards polished, photographed side by side.

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

Property Value Source
Rock type Metamorphic, calcite-dominant marble ASTM C503 classifies marble by composition
Place of origin Guizhou Province, China Our quarry record
Other names Obama Wood Marble, Coffee Grain Marble, Wood Grain Marble, Coffee Wood Vein Marble Market listings
Also called Guizhou coffee wood grain marble Market listings

Why it behaves the way it does

It is not a single stone. Guizhou carries a belt of related wood-grain marbles — white wood grain, grey wood grain, Athens grey wood grain, coffee wood grain and a flatter variety sold as pinghua — and the same name travels under several English ones. That is why a block number matters more than a name when two quotations are compared.

What these figures are, and what they are not

The physical figures on this page are ours, from the stone we supply. Where a published range is given it is labelled and the source is named. We hold no test report for a panel of this stone and nothing here is presented as a measurement of one.

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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Coffee Wood Marble is a natural marble from Guizhou Province in southwest China, quarried in a belt of wood-grain marbles. Its figure runs in straight parallel lines like timber grain, which is why it is sold as an alternative to wood cladding in hotel and commercial interiors.

The figures

Property Value Source
Rock type Metamorphic, calcite-dominant marble ASTM C503 classifies marble by composition
Place of origin Guizhou Province, China Our quarry record
Other names Obama Wood Marble, Coffee Grain Marble, Wood Grain Marble, Coffee Wood Vein Marble Market listings
Also called Guizhou coffee wood grain marble Market listings

Why

It is not a single stone. Guizhou carries a belt of related wood-grain marbles — white wood grain, grey wood grain, Athens grey wood grain, coffee wood grain and a flatter variety sold as pinghua — and the same name travels under several English ones. That is why a block number matters more than a name when two quotations are compared.

What these figures are, and what they are not

The physical figures on this page are ours, from the stone we supply. Where a published range is given it is labelled and the source is named. We hold no test report for a panel of this stone and nothing here is presented as a measurement of one.

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