Portoro Black Marble Sphere with Ball Rest Ø 12 cm

Portoro black marble sphere with sphere rest. Diameter12cm, base height 10cm.

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“Here time is a clear sphere. And little moon turns around him. I have reduced my life to my room because all the work is on the table, and even that makes a block with the rest, in a boulder that closes the cave. […]”

Cristina Campo

The need to decorate family and home environments originates in the oldest traditions. Not only through objects and decorations can we express our personality, but we can change the atmosphere of the house with just a few touches and without substantial intervention.

The perfect and clean shape of this Portoro black marble sphere, in its elegant essentiality, is enriched with a style that is of absolute aesthetic “projection” on the environments where it is placed. Versatile and refined, this sculpture is easily placed in a wide variety of settings, from classic to modern. A gift idea for important occasions, a collector’s item or a simple decorative item, it will be able to add a touch of elegance and luxury to any room in the home.

THE MATERIAL.

The black Portoro or Portovenere marble is a precious variety of Italian marble from the beautiful Golfo dei Poeti, in the Ligurian province of La Spezia, and is one of the most beautiful among the polychrome marbles. It is a very precious Italian stone of an intense and brilliant black color with golden veins ranging from intense yellow to honey color. The peculiarity of its appearance makes it a unique marble, irreplaceable as an ornamental material. There is no stone like it, so distinctive and so luxuriously sophisticated. Portoro is a true work of art of nature, in front of which it is easy to be enchanted.

The appearance of its texture is a deep and intense black, almost velvety, particularly noticeable in the polished plates, on which it seems that gold has been poured from a glass. Veins, streaks, spots and shadows are actually the result of the presence of pyrite and ocher-limonite substances.