Italian Porphyry is a leading provider of porphyry products to architects, designers and private clients. Italian Porphyry also provides background information, resource tools, workshop services and skilled stonemasons for many building projects and architectural designing undertakings.
With its wide range of products and services, Italian Porphyry aims to expand and benchmark the range of natural stone resources that are available in Australia. Porphyry has been used since ancient times in building monuments and also in columns, vases, busts and tombs. The stones carried great symbolic value in the Roman and Egyptian cultures and the production cycle consists of quarrying, grading and final working.
Porphyry products from Italian Porphyry are used in a wide variety of applications like road paving, footpaths, demarking areas, designer paving, pedestrian crossings, urban tree surrounds and grass verges.
Products made of porphyry available from Italian Porphyry include irregular slabs used extensively for a natural surface finish and rough cut edges, split tiles used for paving and facing of internal and external areas and cobblestones that are popular for their combination of natural beauty and adaptability. Italian Porphyry has been involved in designing and paving various famous centres and squares in Europe, America and world over.