Cover story : Granite Granite

A Flair for stone

The latest from wholesalers Granite Granite Ltd is Flair engineered marble from Italian manufacturers Quarella.

Marbles and polished limestones certainly look attractive but they can be relatively soft so they mark easily. Using the latest range of engineered stone from Quarella, the Italian manufacturers, overcomes that.

It is called the Flair range and fits in with their Living range of engineered quartz and Evo range of engineered stone made from recycled materials to be especially environmentally friendly, although all the products carry the American Greenguard certificate of air quality and comply with a host of internationally recognised environmental standards. The ranges combine to offer a unique range of products for architects, designers and clients.

The Flair range brings all the visual advantages of marbles without any of the processing, installation or in-use difficulties that can be associated with the more friable natural products on the market.

And, like all the Quarella ranges, Flair is now available in the UK from stone wholesalers Granite Granite Ltd in Wickford, Essex.

Granite Granite are holding 10 of the most popular Flair lines (pictured on the right) in stock, but can quickly bring any of the 37 different materials in the four collections in the range into the country. You can see them all on the Quarella website, www.quarella.it, which is available in English.

You can also see them and all the other products stocked by Granite Granite, which includes the other Quarella ranges and 80 varieties of granite, marble and limestone, on the newly launched Granite Granite website (www.granitegraniteltd.com).

Granite Granite Managing Director Bernard Hogan wanted to represent Quarella in the UK because he believed Granite Granite would do justice to the Italian-made products that have such a good reputation for high quality, while the brand would also strengthen the offering from Granite Granite.

While the Living and Evo ranges from Quarella are ideal for kitchens and other areas of domestic and commercial buildings, Granite Granite see the Flair range being particularly attractive for bathroom vanity units and wall linings, for wet rooms and as floor tiles, helping their customers, the stone processors, to expand in these important sectors of the market with these premium products that are still good value for money.

Granite Granite’s depot is open 8am-4pm daily, but they are on call 24 hours a day and deliver nationwide with their own trucks.