Stone Sampler: Second Edition

Studio Marmo

Praise for the first edition:

"Stone Sampler would be a great addition to your collection. It is a very informative and comprehensive introduction to the field and does well what it claims to do: it is a great reference."
—Traditional Building

"Sure to appeal to industry professionals and budding interior designers alike….A clear and concise addition to your bookshelf."
—The Essential Kitchen Magazine

"[T]he definitive guide to interior and exterior stone."
—Homebuilding and Renovating

Overview

With an additional 200 new samples, bringing the total to 752, this new edition of Stone Sampler provides swatches of natural stone, including marble, travertine, onyx, granite, quartzite, and limestone, available for use in construction and decoration. It is a concise, portable reference for architects, interior designers, and builders, summarizing the basic technical properties—quarrying locations, availability, compressive and tensile strength, resistance to wear and weather, and other specifications—for design and architecture professionals. General information, including geological and commercial classifications, properties and characteristics, and the various sourcing and processing techniques of stone, is also supplied.

Perfect for designers and specifiers, the accompanying CD-ROM contains all the sample swatches in an easy-to-use TIFF format for Macintosh or PC.

About the Author

Studio Marmo, based in Florence, Italy, supplies companies throughout the world with marketing and promotional literature for the stone industry. Their extensive archive of photographs of natural stone is used to create products that are industry-wide references, offering technical data along with accurate photo reproductions.

ISBN 10: 0-393-73265-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-73265-8
2008 / 576 color illus/ 132 pages / paperback with CD