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Article · 31 March 2026 · 1 min read

The Italian Carrara Story — Augustus’ Imperial Marble in India

Carrara Marble: From Roman Imperial Quarries to Your Indian Bathroom Pedestal

The quarries of Carrara — in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, where marble mountains meet the Tyrrhenian Sea — have been producing the world’s most prestigious white marble continuously for over 2,000 years. Julius Caesar specified Carrara marble for Roman public buildings. Augustus declared he had ‘found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble’ — the marble was Carrara. Michelangelo climbed into the mountains himself to choose the specific blocks for his greatest works: the David, the Pietà, the Moses. The stone he chose every time was Carrara. The same mountains, the same quality stone, the same unique combination of microscopic crystallinity and pure calcium carbonate that creates Carrara’s depth and luminosity, is now in Oceania’s Italian Carrara White Marble Pedestal Sink with Towel Holder.

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