Roman travertine base
Italian quarried travertine; UK trade via Salvatori (London) and Mandarin Stone · Italy (quarry); London (Salvatori showroom)
Reference swatch — labelled stand-in pending close-up photography.
- Technique
- Roman travertine (Italy) used as continuous material strata across floor functions — point-of-sale, seating, low walls
- Family
- stone
- First appearance
- Issue 01 · apl-soho
- Supplier / fabricator
- Italian quarried travertine; UK trade via Salvatori (London) and Mandarin Stone · Italy (quarry); London (Salvatori showroom)
- Lead time
- Unavailable from public sources
- Cost band
- Unavailable from public sources
Source Italian quarried travertine; UK trade via Salvatori (London) and Mandarin Stone
Editor note
Roman travertine — the Italian quarried travertine famously used across Roman civic and papal architecture — deployed at APL SoHo as a continuous material strata running from point-of-sale through stepped seating to low walls. The Chipperfield-school material discipline is visible: a single base material held across every floor function, with the curving artisan plaster walls above it and the onyx vanity rooms pulling away from it. Roman travertine is specifiable as new-build material — Italian quarries supply through specialist stone merchants. UK trade routes for a comparable specification: Salvatori (Italian heritage-stone specialist; London showroom on Wigmore Street, BIID-certified specifier consultation) and Mandarin Stone (UK national merchant, sixteen showrooms, travertine carried in the contract range).
Specification notes
- Continuous material strata: POS desks → stepped seating → low walls
- Paired with teardrop plaster columns and artisan plaster perimeter wall
- Italian Roman-quarry travertine (specifier-led sourcing)
- Material discipline visibly Chipperfield-school (Al-Jawad + Pike both ex-Chipperfield)
- UK trade: Salvatori (Italian heritage register, London showroom); Mandarin Stone (UK national merchant)