How is a fluted marble counter made?

With strips glued onto a panel or, as we do, by milling each groove into the thickness of the slab: the veining is unbroken and the joints hide at the bottom of a groove.

Which marble suits a bar or reception counter?

A compact marble with veining that carries the rhythm of the flutes: veined whites, greys and many coloured marbles. We recommend our Defender treatment against wine, coffee and acids.

Do you ship marble counters to the United States?

Yes: dry assembly and numbering in the workshop, double crate with a tilt sensor, assembly drawing for the client’s installer.

Do you also do the drawings?

Yes: from the architect’s design or a sketch we produce the shop drawings and the cutting plan on the photo of the actual slab, shared before cutting.

Fluted marble reception counter with curved ends, dry-assembled in the Savoia Marmi workshop

Fluted marble counter

Luxury hotel · Manhattan, New York

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Made-to-measure reception

The reception counter of a luxury hotel in Manhattan: a full-height fluted marble front, two curved ends and a top in the same veined white marble. Every flute is milled into the thickness of the slab, so the veining runs on unbroken.

Drawings, cutting, fabrication and dry assembly in Verona; crating and shipping to New York.

Savoia Marmi · Since 1964 Luxury hotel · Manhattan, New York

The fluted marble counter seen from the front: grooved front, curved ends and a veined white marble top

The fluting

Grooves milled from the thickness, not applied.

Fluted marble can be made by gluing strips onto a panel or by milling each groove into the thickness of the slab. Here we chose the second: the stone stays one piece, the veining runs over the ridges and into the grooves, and the joints between panels fall at the bottom of a groove, where they disappear.

Detail of the fluted marble front: grooves milled into the thickness with the veining running through

The fluted front of the counter seen at an angle along its full length

The curved ends

The waves turn the corner without stopping.

The two ends are curved, worked to a radius from solid at the same pitch as the straight front. On a curve every groove has a different depth, so the finishing is done by hand. The top has a rounded edge that follows the ends.

Curved end of the counter: radiused flutes under the rounded marble top

The fluted front and the start of the end curve

The fluted marble counter in the workshop: fluting, curved ends and dry assembly

From Verona to Manhattan

Dry-assembled here, before it leaves.

A counter this long cannot be tested on site five thousand miles away: we dry-assemble it in the workshop, top included, check joints and veining and number every piece. It then leaves for Manhattan in a double crate with a tilt sensor and the assembly drawing.

Savoia Marmi stonemasons setting the top on the fluted counter during dry assembly

The fluted counter complete with its top during the final check in the workshop

The Stone Weavers

The fluted marble counter dry-assembled in the workshop, seen from the front

Close-up of the flutes with grey and gold veining

Checking the top joint during dry assembly

Frequently asked questions

Fluted marble counters: the questions we get.

With strips glued onto a panel or, as we do, by milling each groove into the thickness of the slab: the veining is unbroken and the joints hide at the bottom of a groove.
Yes: curved elements are worked to a radius from solid at the same pitch as the straight front, and the grooves are finished by hand.
A compact marble with veining that carries the rhythm of the flutes: veined whites, greys and many coloured marbles. We recommend our Defender treatment against wine, coffee and acids.
Yes: dry assembly and numbering in the workshop, double crate with a tilt sensor, assembly drawing for the client’s installer.
Yes: from the architect’s design or a sketch we produce the shop drawings and the cutting plan on the photo of the actual slab, shared before cutting.