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Ornaments
Fountains
Wellheads
Planters
Garden lamps
Columns
Pillars
Balustrades
Finials
Kiosks
Garden furniture
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:: Marble columns

Marble columnThe hystory of marble is ancient, it comes back to the copper age. Inside the apuan caves, in some underground graves, “marble beads”, jewels and necklaces have been discovered. But it is only in the roman age that marble has became a fundamental element of the private and public architecture. A stunning, bright, severe but also rich material, able to compete with the greek art. Marble was used in the lining and the decoration of buildings, in the statuary, in the forniture, decorative objects and touristic manufacture.

Marble epos is still going on nowadays, even if today a lot of crafts have disappeared (as lists-workers, diggers and so on… ) and the digging and recovering techniques have made the work less dangerous and hard.

In the columns gallery is displayed just a limited sample of indoor and outdoor works, lathed and refined by our local artisan masters.

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