From single-block bath tubs to bold beach clubs, these yachts show how marble has become a striking focal point on the sea.

The Ligier black marble quarries, discovered in 1909 three miles south of the town of Dragoon, were considered comparable in quality to the famous Carrara ... white, pink, gray, purple and black ...

During the Renaissance, Carrara marble gained fame through sculptures by artists like Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini and others. Over the past two centuries, however, the process has changed ...

This cinematic reel captures the otherworldly Pink Lake in Western Australia, the rugged Salt Stone Mountain in Algeria, the mystical Cave of the Salamander in France, Italy's iconic Carrara ...

Even grown-up kids can heap disaster onto your marble. Kirk tells the story of friends whose college-age son put a hot frying pan down on their “stunning” Carrara marble countertop ...

which produces specific types of marble, Carrara and Calacatta. Smith explains that Carrara marble, which is “very soft, cloudy white with gray veining,” costs around $60–$100 per square foot.

On the top floor of a Paris apartment renovated by the designers Kim Haddou and Florent Dufourcq, a bathroom suite lined in Carrara marble ... the original pink bathtub and shower.

Carrara marble, for example ... the resulting stone may acquire bluish, gray, pink and black hues. Something that would make its use in a sculpture unfeasible can be seen as the real beauty ...

I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara — home to the coveted Carrara marble. The port's unique landscape and history, paired with a lack of crowds, make it a hidden gem.

In a Venice apartment designed by Jacques Grange, the primary bathroom is a cocoon of Cremo Tirreno marble. Colorful marble has been having a moment. Designers and homeowners have rediscovered ...

As an adjunct to its slab galleries, where designers can peruse warehouses stocked with massive cuts of marble in every conceivable coloration ... Ann Sacks offers a choice of popular classics like ...