Mushroom
Coffee Wood Marble in photographs
The surface on this page has not been photographed on this stone yet, so these are photographs of the stone itself. Ask for a sample of the surface and we will send one.
Photographs of this stone. The colour on screen is not a colour match.
Mushroom, explained
How the surface is made
Traditional masonry tools chip the stone with controlled blows, leaving a distinctive rustic relief with irregularities.
What it does to the stone
A soft, dimpled, almost organic relief. The face reads as hand-worked.
Where it is the right answer
Garden walls, landscape work, rustic feature walls and garden furniture, and traditional or country-style settings.
On Coffee Wood Marble
Achievable on marble but it removes a lot of the surface, so on a dark stone the result is lighter and the base colour reads greyer than the slab. It suits a landscape setting where the stone is being used as it comes out of the ground.
Also searched as
mushroom finish · mushroomed · rustic face · boucharded · boucharde
The processes above are the trade's descriptions of these finishes. Whether a finish suits this stone is our reading of how a calcite marble behaves under it — we have not run a slip or abrasion test on any of these surfaces, and a floor specification needs the tested wet-DCOF figure for the stone and the finish, which we will supply on request.