Guides
Guides to marble for the kitchen and the home
Fifty years of workshop have taught us that the right choice starts with the right questions. These guides answer the ones you ask us most often, in plain words and true facts.
The guides
- How to Choose Marble for Your Kitchen: The Michelessi GuideThe best marble for a kitchen combines the pattern you love with low porosity and a finish that hides wear: Calacatta, Carrara and Statuario among the whites, Nero Marquina and Botticino among the solid colours. Marble is calcium carbonate and reacts to acids, so on the hardest-working surfaces Dekton or quartz make sense, even within the same kitchen.
- Outdoor kitchen: which stone to chooseFor an outdoor kitchen the most dependable stones are granite, quartzite and sintered stone, which stand up to sun, frost, rain and salt air with very little upkeep; marble can be used honed and sealed, with stainless steel for the working parts. For barbecues and ovens the answer is refractory stone: cement and masonry cannot take thermal shock.
- Bespoke Marble Kitchen from Italy: How Worldwide Delivery WorksA bespoke Michelessi marble kitchen is made in our workshop in Aprilia, between Rome and Latina, and delivered anywhere in the world: a first contact with photos and measurements, remote 3D design, slab selection, cutting and finishing in the workshop, custom crating, shipping and installation, by our own team in Italy and coordinated with the project abroad, as in Dubai.
- Made in Italy Marble Kitchens Since 1976: The Aprilia WorkshopA Made in Italy marble kitchen since 1976 means, for Michelessi, a piece designed and built entirely in Aprilia, between Rome and Latina: slabs chosen one by one, CNC cutting, hand finishing and installation by the workshop's own team. Half a century of craft, a short supply chain and a single point of contact from the first drawing to the last measurement.
- Marble Worktop Care and Maintenance: The Michelessi GuideA marble kitchen worktop is cared for with warm water, neutral soap and a soft cloth, wiping up spills at once. Keep it away from acids and limescale removers, protect it with an impregnating sealer renewed regularly and, when needed, have it re-polished: looked after this way, marble ages gracefully and stays beautiful for decades.
- Marble, Dekton, Quartz or Fenix: Which Kitchen Worktop to ChooseThere is no perfect kitchen worktop, only the right one for the way you cook. Marble is the one-of-a-kind piece but dislikes acids; Dekton and quartzite shrug off heat and scratches; engineered quartz is practical but not for hot pans; Fenix is deep matt and velvety; granite is the tireless classic. Here is the honest comparison, material by material.
- How Much Does a Marble Kitchen Cost? What Drives the PriceThe price of a marble kitchen is not a fixed figure: it depends on the marble chosen and the rarity of the block, the thickness of the worktop, the linear metres and extent of the tops, waterfall sides, special fabrication, cabinetry and appliances, transport and fitting. Michelessi, in Aprilia since 1976, sets it with a free quotation.