Opera Fantastico Marble Slab

Opera Fantastico earns its name honestly — beige, brown and red form the base, with genuinely unusual blue and yellow colouring moving through it, a combination not many marbles in the range come close to matching.

It suits kitchen benchtops, cladding, flooring and furniture, and works best as a genuine feature piece — a stone this varied in colour is better suited to a single statement application than spread thinly across a whole kitchen.

The range of colours in a single block like this comes down to multiple mineral impurities being present together during formation — iron oxides for the reds and browns, other trace minerals responsible for the less common blue tones — which is part of why stones this colourful are comparatively rare.