Natural Stone in Luxury Kitchen Design: From Milan Design Week to Marmomac 2026

The warehouse smelled of stone and diesel and something older than both. I was standing in Carrara, Italy, inside one of the vast warehouses where stone slabs wait in rows like pages of an unread book, each one a piece of a mountain that took millions of years to become what it is. Outside, the Alpi Apuane rose white against the sky, the same mountains that supplied marble to Michelangelo, the same mountains that have been slowly, deliberately cut since Roman times.