Montana Tile and Stone Summit 2012



Quarry Collection Petit Granit
Tile Backsplash

This past week, the Montana Tile and Stone Summit was held in conjunction with ASID(Interior Designers) and NKBA(National Kitchen and Bath) members.  It was held at the beautiful MTS store in Bozeman and allowed us to be surrounded by fixtures, tiles and stone.  It is THE most beautiful showroom of its kind!  (The awesome fixture showroom even has a working heated seat, bidet featured toilet from Toto.  Oh boy! The heated seat in the dead of winter here would be wonderful!)...definitely worth a try...  The tile department carries Italian tile, glass tiles, marbles, metals with even tiles with a 3-d type shapes such as a jumping fish...pretty cool!  They also have a production department where they can "build" your marble or granite counters with laser cutters, etc.




Statuario Marble Countertop and Tiled Wall

 



Why is the marble in the above photo called statuario marble?  Well, I believe it is because the old statues(like that of David by Michelangelo that was carved between 1500 & 1504.) 

You may have heard that marble is not appropriate in the kitchen-NOT TRUE!  If the David statue and other buildings were built out of marble have been around that long-why do we think it is not useful in the kitchen? You have probably heard that marble is too soft or stainable...well yes, it can stain, but if you are normally clean, neat person there shouldn't be any issues.  (For example, if a lemon or something acidic is spilled, yes, it can leave a mark, if not wiped up...if you spill tomato paste same thing,...but most of us wipe things up!)
If you look around in bakeries or restaurants, alot of them have marble as their countertops...and they have way more spills than we would at home...something to think about!

Boyce & Bean glass tile
 

Quarry Collection Caracas Blue Limestone Countertop
 and Golden Beach Limestone Floor Tile
 

A few samples of stone and tile shown there are featured in these photos! All photos are courtesy of The Quarry Collection website at quarryc.com They have other inspirational photos as well if you are interested.

So my question is: where could you use marble?

Calacata Marble backsplash from The Quarry Collection