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Peach flower marble

Maison & Maison allows you to design your own custom-made mantel in luxury marbles such as Peach Blossom marble. Two varieties of Peach Blossom marble are available to make your custom mantel, a pale variety and a violet one.

Peach Blossom marble is a historical marble, much used in the nineteenth century for exceptional designs. One of the most remarkable pieces carved in this marble is the extraordinary marble mantel in the Grand Salon in the apartments of Napoleon III at the Louvre. The custom "Noailles" mantel offered by Maison & Maison has a similar shape and wealth of decorative detail.

An antique Peach Blossom marble mantel can be seen in the Oval Room in the Hotel de Soubise in Paris. This sumptuous Regence style mantel is comparable to our custom "Ducs de Nantes" mantel.

In the United States, there is a magnificient Peach Blossom marble mantel made by Jules Allard in the Marble House in Newport.

The original quarry, opened in the seventeenth century, is located in Serravezza in the basin of Carrara, Italy. This variety is called "Fior di Pesco Apuano" (Apuane Peach Blossom), to distinguish it from its Greek namesake from Eretria. This marble is a breccia consisting of large irregular fragments spotted with purple, red or pink. The original quarries are located in Serravezza and Stazzema. Since the twentieth century, the quarries are located in regions of Versilia and Garfagnana, and more recently in the quarries of Renana, Forno and Massa. Today, it is very little extracted and is increasingly rare.
It was mostly used for smaller items, furniture, particularly table tops. In the seventeenth century, it was much favored for religious artefacts. Extensively used during the Second Empire, particularly for the decoration of the Opéra Garnier.

Maison & Maison offers two varieties of Fleur de Pecher marble, a pale variety and a purple one.

 
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