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On my first ever trip to Italy I slept on a marble floor. I was visiting an old schoolfriend who had the good fortune to be spending a term of her History of Art degree in the home town of Canaletto, Titian and Tintoretto. Her Venetian lodgings were a one-room apartment in a palazzo with little provision for guests but generously proportioned, acceptably furnished and most memorably featuring an abundance of polished mineral surfaces. Though not overly-grand, it was a cut above most student accommodation and gave me my first experience of residing in the enveloping calm of an interior swathed in stone. Ascending the steps of Villa Necchi or any one of Milan’s palatial residences brings back that same feeling. It’s something historic Italy does expertly.
More decades than I care to mention later, and the contemporary design world is mining the emotional value of some of the more exciting strata buried far beneath our feet. Not only are marbles and fine granites shorthand for…
