{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"roman-plinth-beige-travertine","title":"The Roman Plinth — Beige Travertine","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalcium carbonate in its most unmediated form is the color of warm ivory. At Tivoli, in the Lazio hills east of Rome, the same thermal springs that fed the ancient aqueducts deposited mineral-rich water layer by layer over millennia, and the limestone that formed from that process carries a color you cannot manufacture: cream, sand, bone, the natural tone of carbonated minerals slowly pressurized into stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis travertine was cut from the same geological formation that supplied the Colosseum. The quarries at Tivoli are still active, the stone is the same. What changes is how it is used. Here, a single block is worked into a plinth: 17.7\" × 12.6\" × 12.6\" (45 × 32 × 32 cm), 121 lbs (55 kg). Four sides are left raw, the pores open where gas bubbles escaped the mineralizing water, the surface textured, geological. The top is hand-sanded to a matte finish: flat, receptive, without gloss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a room, beige travertine reads as resolved without effort. It absorbs light rather than reflecting it. It does not compete with the objects placed on it or beside it. It sits in the same tonal register as linen, plaster, bleached oak, without mimicking any of them. This is what two thousand years of Roman construction understood: the stone does not need to announce itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced in 4, 6 weeks. White-glove delivery (two persons) at $300 flat rate to the USA, Canada, and Australia. A 10×10 cm sample is available at $30, credited in full against your order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tobia Stones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48824862802152,"sku":"TS-BEIGE-001","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/8770\/9160\/files\/TobiaStoneRomanPlinthtravertinesidetableonblackoakbase_naturalstoneblock_d9dab7ff-1b71-4ca4-bc51-2690f8e3eabe.png?v=1785463969"},{"product_id":"roman-plinth-grey-travertine","title":"The Roman Plinth — Grey Travertine","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot all thermal water carries the same mineral load. When the calcium-rich springs at Tivoli mixed with volcanic sediment from the Alban Hills, ash, silica, fine particulate from centuries of geothermal activity, the resulting limestone shifted. What reads as warm ivory in pure carbonate conditions moved toward dove grey, slate, the color of stone that has absorbed a different mineral history. The grey is not a surface treatment. It is a chemical record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrey travertine is the atypical variant of this formation. Its tone makes it distinctly architectural, the coloring sits closer to concrete, to the aggregate used in modernist construction, to the material palette of Tadao Ando or Herzog and de Meuron. It reads as cold in the geological sense: formed under conditions distinct from the warmer beige deposits. The block is cut to the same dimensions as the rest of the Roman Plinth series, 17.7\" × 12.6\" × 12.6\" (45 × 32 × 32 cm), 121 lbs (55 kg), but occupies a room differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour sides are left raw: the pore structure visible, the horizontal strata legible, the compressed mineral record exposed. The top surface is sanded matte. Against concrete floors or dark oak, the grey disappears into the architecture, which is precisely when a piece of stone furniture does its best work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced in 4, 6 weeks. White-glove delivery (two persons, $300 flat) to the USA, Canada, and Australia. Sample 10×10 cm at $30, credited in full against your order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tobia Stones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48824862834920,"sku":"TS-GREY-001","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/8770\/9160\/files\/Grey_travertine_finition_a6a3ed48-6f10-4f71-932a-3bb2c2f9fe1a.png?v=1785464010"},{"product_id":"roman-plinth-red-travertine","title":"The Roman Plinth — Red Travertine","description":"\u003cp\u003eIron oxide does not negotiate. When the thermal springs at Tivoli carried ferrous minerals in solution, those minerals oxidized on contact with oxygen, and stained the forming calcium carbonate in shades ranging from warm ochre to deep rust. Each stratum in this travertine records a distinct mineral event: a different iron concentration, a different water temperature, a different season in the geological sequence. The result is stone that reads as layered because it was formed in layers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe red coloration is not uniform, and it was never meant to be. Bands of warm rust alternate with veins of cream and brown-ochre, the visible record of a spring that changed composition over thousands of years of deposition. This is the same Tivoli formation that supplied stone for the Colosseum, but what the iron-rich pockets produced here is rarer: a travertine that carries chromatic history in its cross-section, legible on the raw sides of the plinth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 17.7\" × 12.6\" × 12.6\" (45 × 32 × 32 cm) and 121 lbs (55 kg), this is a piece with physical presence. The four raw sides expose the full mineral stratigraphy, the pore structure, the color variation, the strata that no two blocks replicate in the same sequence. The matte-sanded top provides a working surface without interrupting the geological reading. In a room built on restraint, this is the object that holds the eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced in 4, 6 weeks. White-glove delivery (two persons, $300 flat) to the USA, Canada, and Australia. Sample 10×10 cm at $30, credited in full against your order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tobia Stones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48824862867688,"sku":"TS-RED-001","price":3400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/8770\/9160\/files\/red_travertine_travertine_finition_d98f8e72-0c39-4d5a-bab0-c35ecf6ee53e.png?v=1785464019"},{"product_id":"roman-plinth-calacatta-noir","title":"The Roman Plinth — Calacatta Noir","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalacatta Noir is quarried in the mountains of Carrara, Italy. A marble of extreme contrast, jet black ground, crossed by white and grey veining. Each slab unrepeatable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe block is sawn. Sides left rough, bearing the trace of the tool. Top surface sanded matte, smooth enough to hold a glass, present enough for a hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17.7\" × 12.6\" × 12.6\", 121 lbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLead time: 6, 10 weeks. 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