Custom marble and stone table tops

Tops for dining tables, desks, coffee tables, console tables, side tables, vanities and islands. Rectangular, square, round, oval, or a shape drawn from a template you send us. If the form can be drawn, it can usually be cut.

We also supply replacement tops. If a table you own has a damaged or dated surface but a base worth keeping, a new top is almost always the better decision, both for cost and for the piece itself.

Our stone library runs from the familiar to the genuinely scarce. The most commonly specified for tops:

• Travertine in beige, grey, red and white. Honed, and filled unless you ask otherwise. The most forgiving surface for daily use, and the one that hides marks best.
• Pale marbles including Carrara White, Arabescato White and Calacatta Viola. The classic choice, and the least forgiving of a coffee ring.
• Dark marbles such as Nero Marquina, Nero Antico and Dark Emperador. They hold their composure against fingerprints and everyday wear.
• Green and coloured stone including Verde Alpi, Indian Green, Rosso Levanto and Rosso Alicante, where the top is meant to be the reason you look at the room.
• Rare and figured stone such as Patagonia, Azul Macaubas, Sahara Noir and Pink Onyx, subject to what is in the yard when you order.

If you are choosing between them, our guide to which marble is best for a dining table covers how each behaves in use rather than how it photographs.

Most tops are cut at 2cm or 3cm. The difference is not only visual: a 3cm top reads as substantial and carries its own weight across a longer span, while 2cm is lighter, easier to fit and often the right answer on an existing base that was not engineered for stone.

Edge profiles change the character of a top more than most people expect. A square edge is architectural and quiet. A softened or eased edge is kinder in a room where people pass close to a corner. A mitred edge builds visual thickness without the weight of solid stone. Tell us the effect you are after and we will tell you what the stone will allow.

This is where most top-only projects succeed or fail, so it is worth being precise early.

Send dimensions, and ideally a template. For anything other than a simple rectangle, a physical or digital template removes the guesswork. Stone has no tolerance for adjustment once cut.

Tell us what the base is made of. Steel, timber and existing stone all behave differently under a rigid top, and the fixing method differs for each.

Check the base can carry it. Stone is heavier than most bases were designed for. A 3cm slab runs to roughly 18 to 19 pounds per square foot, so a dining top of 180 by 90cm is in the region of 350 pounds before anything else. If the base was built for timber or glass, it may need reinforcing. We would rather raise that before cutting than after.

Consider the floor as well as the base. On an upper storey or in an older building, a heavy top is worth a word with whoever knows the structure. Our guide to stone desks goes through the weight arithmetic in full.

1. Finished dimensions, or a template
2. The stone, or the effect you want if you have not chosen
3. Thickness, if you have a preference
4. Edge profile
5. What the top is sitting on, and how it will be fixed
6. Any cut-outs: cable ports, sinks, taps
7. Delivery address, and whether there are stairs

Photographs of the base and the room help more than they sound like they will.

Tops are made to order. Current lead time is around fifteen weeks from approval, depending on the stone and whether it is in the yard or being sourced.

We deliver white-glove across the United States and ship worldwide. A stone top is rigid, heavy and unforgiving of a tight staircase, so delivery is planned rather than assumed.