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Quality Marble is at the forefront of natural stone design and special commissions are welcomed. 

By combining new and traditional stones with complementary materials such as glass, pebbles, seashells, stainless steel and other metals stunning and innovative designs and products can be created. 

Gallery Showroom can offer you the whole Quality Marble range to really bring a feel of class and durable quality to your kitchen.

Composite Stone

Composite Stone is a man-made material that involves mixing natural stone, usually crushed marble, granite or quartz with silica and polyester resin. This mixture, which contains at least 90% natural stone, is then poured into moulds to form regular sized blocks or slabs. Having completed a series of other carefully controlled manufacturing processes; the finished Composite Stone products can be worked in the same way as natural stone.

One advantage of using Composite Stone is the ability to guarantee a consistency of background colour. Being man-made, the colour of the resin can be strictly controlled, thereby ensuring consistent colours from one slab to the next.

Granite

People often confuse granite with marble and vice versa, but they are actually very different materials geologically. Granite is much older and harder than marble and is actually igneous rock formed mainly of feldspar and quartz, usually with traces of mica or hornblende.

Granite can be highly polished to expose all of its natural characteristics; honed for a matt finish or flame-textured for an aged, antique finish. These finishes are sometimes combined to produce interesting patterns and features.

Granite is tremendously popular for its aesthetic appearance and its hardwearing, almost maintenance-free qualities. This is especially true of kitchen worktops and counter tops.

Limestone

Limestone is very popular as a decorative finish for many reasons, most importantly its appearance. Most limestones are generally pale and light in colour, which makes them subtle and easy to blend into any colour scheme. Many people also prefer limestones matt, eggshell finish to the highly polished look of Marble, Granite or Composite Stone.

Limestone and Marble can be similar in appearance, which sometimes results in confusion between the two. This usually occurs when a limestone is particularly hard and can be highly polished, like Marble. Generally though, most limestones cannot take a high gloss polish, hence their matt finish.

Limestones are quite different from Marble geologically, being sedimentary stones formed from the floors of shallow tropical seas. This is why you will often find skeletons and shells of sea animals and ooliths (tiny spheres of sand) in some limestones - another reason why limestone is considered attractive and interesting.

Limestone is available in a variety of colours and, whilst light beige is predominant, yellows, pinks, browns and reds are also popular

Marble

Marble has been used for centuries as a structural and decorative building material and the many famous buildings that still exist today, such as the Colosseum and Pantheon in Rome, are a fitting tribute to the skilled craftsmen of the day and the tremendous durability of marble itself.

Marble was created through a metamorphosis involving heat and pressure and its’ most common characteristic is calcium carbonate. It is normally white, but often tinted by iron oxide, carbon and serpentine to form attractive shades of yellow, brown, green or black. Other minerals may grow from impurities within the stone often resulting in coloured streaks or veins. Marble is usually finely crystalline, hard and dense and consequently can be highly polished.

Marble is usually highly polished to highlight its’ wonderful natural characteristics. However, it is also available in a matt (honed) finish or an aged (antiqued) finish for a more traditional look.

Mosaic

The creation of a mosaic work of art requires design skills, innovation and traditional craftsmanship using methods that have changed little over the years. QM can create such works of art based on customers’ own designs.

Born on the shores of the Mediterranean over 2000 years ago, the fascinating art of mosaic was developed and refined by the Romans who used it extensively throughout their empire. Mosaics can be created from many different materials, the most popular being marble and glass. However, precious metals like gold and silver can also be used with stunning effect.

Examples of typical mosaic works include portraits, corporate logos, decorative motifs and reproductions of historic mosaics and works of art. QM can reproduce most designs and artwork whether traditional, modern or abstract and customers are encouraged to send in their most inspired works!

Sandstone

Sandstone is very often called York Stone and vice versa. Although the popular, yellow York Stone is indeed sandstone, it is not the only type. Other colours such as reds, pinks, beiges, creams, blues and browns are also available. Whilst many of these are indigenous to the U.K., sandstone is found all over the world.

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock formed over millions of years from fine grains of sand glued together by minerals of natural cement. It is the composition of this "cement" which determines the colour and hardness of each sandstone. Some of the harder sandstones are rich in quartz and feldspar, two minerals that are also commonly found in granite.

Sandstone is used in situations where a colourful, durable, non-slip, low maintenance surface is required. Popular examples include flooring and wall cladding, landscape features like patios, terraces, balconies and paths and both internal and external swimming pool surrounds.

Slate

Slate can be described very simply as a sedimentary mud rock, compressed and compacted over time and altered by metamorphism (a combination of heat and pressure) to form a very hard rock with well defined cleavage lines. These cleavage lines enable the slate to be easily “split” or “cleft” which gives slate its’ characteristic appearance. Slates can vary in colour depending on the different minerals that were introduced during their metamorphosis. Bright colours such as greens, reds, yellows and purples can be found, as well as the more common greys and blacks.

Slate is generally harder than other sedimentary rocks like Limestone and Sandstone and is available in a matt, eggshell finish as well as the better-known riven, cleft finish.

Grey, black and green slates are very popular in the worktop and vanity top market where their consistent, matt appearance is much sought after.