Breccia Capraia total look

In the heart of Presidio Heights, one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in San Francisco, a Colonial Revival style home from the 1930s has found new life thanks to the renovation by Lauren Nelson Design. The aim of the project was to reconfigure the interior spaces to adapt them to the needs of a young family, combining functionality and refinement through an aesthetic that blended classicism and contemporary details. Great brightness and connection with the outside, a sophisticated color palette and precious materials, were decisive for obtaining a renewed home in the sign of elegance, capable of reflecting the cosmopolitan and refined soul of its inhabitants.

A kitchen in Breccia Capraia marble

Standing out in this setting is the kitchen, which fully represents the perfect balance between material research and sculptural design thanks to the evocative and peculiar marble cladding of all the elements present in the environment.

The absolute protagonist of the interior is in fact the Breccia Capraia Calacatta Turquoise Marble, chosen in a total-look for the realization of the imposing cantilever island, the worktops and the backsplash. The distinctive character of this fascinating Italian marble, characterized by veins in aquamarine tones, embellishes the environment with its brilliance, dialoguing with the furniture with a modern classic flavor.

At the origins of Breccia Capraia

The CAPRAIA quarry is located in Tuscany, in the heart of the Apuan Alps, in the province of Massa-Carrara. Between Mount Altissimo and Carchio, nature has created a unique material, known since Roman times especially for the precious and unfindable BRECCIA CAPRAIA marble. Later, the marbles from the Capraia Quarry were also appreciated by the Medici family and used to embellish the city of Florence during the Italian Renaissance. The quarry, closed in the 1950s due to the high costs of transport by lizzatura (a traditional method of transporting marble), was reopened by GMC Spa in 1970 after the construction of the road that made it accessible. Today these marbles are extracted and marketed exclusively by GMC Spa, the blocks are transformed into slabs and processed in their own laboratories.