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Historic black-and-white photograph of an industrial plant with two slender towers under a clear sky, the memory of the roots of the Michelessi trade

Michelessi Marble — Aprilia, Italy

Since 1976, a family story
written in stone

Half a century of marble craftsmanship: the roots of a trade handed down from generation to generation, a workshop that has never stopped growing, works that outlast the years — designed and built entirely in Italy.

About us — a Michelessi vision

Fifty years of marble,
a story of family

Since 1976 we have worked stone in Aprilia, for building and for furnishing.

Floors, staircases, cladding, bathrooms, kitchens, pools, tables: even from your own drawing.

From the first sketch to the working drawing, beside the one who will live with the work.

The machines have changed, not the hands.

The craft — a Michelessi vision

We know marble
as few others do

Michelessi SRL has worked marble for the building and furnishing industries since 1976. Year after year, we have kept confirming the quality of our works and seeking new answers to what the market asks of us: the machines have changed, the hands have not. Our company employs highly qualified people, specialised in the production of bespoke works of true quality; we know marble as few others do, we tend to its details and its form, and every work that leaves Aprilia carries with it the pride of Italian craftsmanship done well.

Our great strength has always been the possibility of commissioning bespoke works: we create tailor-made pieces, even from drawings you provide. For decades we have built marble floors, staircases, exterior and interior cladding for buildings large and small, bathrooms, masonry kitchens for indoors and outdoors, pools, tables and much more — from the simplest marble threshold to the most demanding projects. We design bespoke indoor marble kitchens and outdoor kitchens in marble and stone.

Every work is born of the meeting of three presences: the one who will live with it, the one who designs it and the one who builds it. That is why our team of designers stays at your side from the first sketch to the working drawing, with surveys, three-dimensional models and photographic renderings that show you the result before the first cut is ever made. And the quotation is free: bring us an idea, and we will return it to you in stone.

The workshop — a Michelessi vision

The film of
our workshop

The workshop at work: the slabs, the block, the saw, and the kitchen taking shape under the lamps.

The craft — a Michelessi vision

Water
and the stone

01 Water veils the marble: beneath the pale veil the stone holds its breath.

02 The machine caresses the slab: every pass kindles sparks of water and light.

03 The surface becomes a mirror: the dark of the workshop looks into it, and the stone answers.

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The Aprilia workshop — a Michelessi vision

The First Cut
of the Slab

The workshop lies in half-light and a single beam falls on the block: the milling head descends on the stone, sparks fan out and the dust catches fire like gold in the vapour. This is the moment when marble stops being a block and begins to become a project: the first cut decides everything, and that is why we guard it like a rite.

The first cut is the most delicate stage of marble working: the veining is read, the side from which to open the block is chosen, and a decision is made on how much stone to leave for the work still to come. In our workshop, technology does not replace craftsmanship: it amplifies it, lends it constancy and measure, and the expert eye stays beside the machine from the first pass to the last.

Technology and handwork — a Michelessi vision

Precision That Sculpts
the Everyday

The vivid red of the machining head commands the scene like a mechanical heart suspended above the slab. This is the CNC machining centre, the point where the design drawn on screen becomes exact matter. Yet the machine, however powerful, never works alone: there is always an eye that sets, checks and corrects; a hand that guides the slab and knows its fragile points as one knows those of a friend. It is the balance we have cultivated since 1976: technology in the service of Italian craftsmanship, never the other way round.

The artisan's gesture — a Michelessi vision

Water and Steel,
the Caress of the Cut

Water wraps the tool in an unbroken veil: it cools, carries away the dust, turns the cut into a caress. Numerical control does not replace the hand: it extends it. Behind every path of the tool there is a technician who has read the stone, chosen the bit, decided where to press and where to ease. It is the silent dialogue between steel, water and stone that has defined our trade for decades, in a workshop equipped to answer every commission with speed and precision.

The film

Eternal Rome,
marble in motion

One minute among the monuments that taught the world the art of stone: the Colosseum, the colonnade of Saint Peter's, the Pantheon. The same material we have entrusted for fifty years to the hands of our artisans, in Aprilia.

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The collections

Discover our
collections

We specialise in fireplaces, kitchens, bathrooms, floors, staircases and every kind of interior work; and then, out in the open, thresholds, exterior paving, tables, statues, barbecues, pools, fountains and driveways. We have gathered it all into fourteen collections: they are the doorways into our craft, and each one awaits you with its photographs and its stories.

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Free quotation

Draw your dreams,
we take care of the rest

Bring us an idea, a measurement, a photograph: the quotation is free and the first conversation costs nothing. You will find us at Via Pontina Km 45,350 in Aprilia — or write to us whenever you prefer. And if you would like to know us better, read our story and shake hands with our team.

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