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Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 1:03
| Looking at multiple stone sites and saw this granite that looked like the sky.....while not for me, would be beautiful in a kitchen with blues. |
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| WOW! That's very good looking! |
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| It looks like an arctic landscape, to me. That stone seems too grand for just any old kitchen, like it wants to be part of a wall in a museum or government building, instead! |
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- Posted by cloud_swift (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 2:06
| That looks like Azul Macaubas which is a quartzite from Brazil. There were a couple of kitchens on this forum that used it when I was doing my kitchen. Like most very blue stones, it's expensive. One forum member used some darker slabs of Azul Macaubas which weren't quite as price - she said it looked more like a winter sky than the summer sky. One of the posters on the cooking forum used Azul Macaubas tiles instead of slabs. My Azul do Mar is the sea. When we were shopping for slabs, I saw some that look similar except lavender instead of blue. Quartzite is white and the stones get their color from the impurities. |
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| That stone is gorgeous! It really does look like a piece of art. |
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- Posted by flwrs_n_co (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 2:54
| Wow, that stone is so dramatic! It looks like the blue glaciers you see on some Nat Geo shows--gorgeous! |
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| Early on in the shopping process, I saw a couple of pieces that were blue and pink like a sunrise. So gorgeous! Those and yours need to be hung and framed, not used as a work surface. |
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| I was going to say Azul Mac as well. So pretty! |
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- Posted by honorbiltkit (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 12:21
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- Posted by mama_goose (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 15:21
| The linked Youtube video is beautiful and informative, but surely that is ice--not granite? |
Here is a link that might be useful: AM quarry
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- Posted by honorbiltkit (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 16:09
| mama goose, you are right. I was just free-associating on a scorching holiday afternoon. That said, beautiful and informative with voiceover by the late great Eva Cassidy is not such a bad thing for kitchen mavens to run into, even if it is a bit OT, n'est-ce pas? Cheers. hbk |
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- Posted by mama_goose (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 16:54
| hbk, absolutely! While I was there I listened to several of her songs, including poignant, live versions of 'It's a Wonderful World' and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' Thank you for the link. When I first saw the picture above, I immediately thought of Arctic ice--I see several other posters made the connection, too. It's a beautiful slab! |
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- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Wed, Jul 4, 12 at 22:12
| Very cool looking! |
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| Definitely azul macaubus - that's my dream stone! I'm hoping to use it in my master bathroom because I had already ordered my kitchen granite when I discovered the azul. That stone you've posted is gorgeous! Many have a lot of tan in them, which I don't like as well. On beautiful days when I'm driving and the sky looks like that, I say it's an azul macaubus sky! |
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| Cut into counters, it would not be nearly as impressive. I'd want to use it in full(er) slab size pieces for the back wall of a glass shower or wall somewhere. |
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| The glass shower is what I was thinking. And the counter which is kind of long. |
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