Pink granite
Ghiandone Aswan Granite
Also sold as Aswan Ghiandone · Porphyritic Aswan
Large pink feldspar crystals scattered through a grey ground.
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Drag the slab to turn it, or use the arrow keys. Switching finish re-renders the surface — polished throws a hard specular, the abraded finishes open the surface up and knock the colour back.
Ghiandone is a texture name, not a colour name: large feldspar crystals set like acorns through a finer matrix. In the Aswan bed those crystals come through pink against a grey ground, at a scale you read from across a room rather than at arm's length, and no other Egyptian granite reads like it. Everything practical about the stone follows from that scale. It needs a module big enough to carry the pattern — on slabs, large cladding panels and generous cut-to-size it does what it is bought for, while a small tile cuts through individual crystals and the effect turns busy rather than distinctive. There is no direction in it, because the crystals are scattered and not aligned, so panels do not have to be run one way and there is nothing to book-match. It is cut as tiles, slabs, cut-to-size and steps, but not as kerbs or cobbles.
Rosa El Nasr is the other pink out of Aswan and the usual alternative — same district, but an even pink-and-grey speckle with nothing standing out of it. Ghiandone is chosen when that evenness is the problem and Rosa El Nasr when it is the point; Rosa El Nasr is also the easier of the two to run across a whole facade, at Very high availability against Ghiandone's medium.
- Material
- Granite
- Colour
- Pink
- Origin
- Aswan, Upper Egypt
- Availability
- Medium
- Finishes
- Polished, Honed, Flamed, Bush-hammered
- Formats
- Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Steps and risers
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Samples are 10 × 10 cm as standard and go out by courier.
Photographs
Ghiandone Aswan in the yard
Photographs of our own blocks, slabs and finished work. Slab photography shows one slab — the block it came from is what you are quoted against.
Laid out
Ghiandone Aswan across a floor
A photograph shows one slab on a stand. This shows the stone tile after tile — where the pattern repeats, how far the tone drifts across a batch, and what the joint does to it. Every tile here is cut from a different part of the surface, the way material comes out of a real crate.
Indicative layout. Tone drift is deliberate — no two tiles from one batch match exactly, and a laid floor should never look like one photograph repeated.
In the room
Ghiandone Aswan against your wall colour
Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Ghiandone Aswan on the floor, up the wall or across a worktop, set the colour it will actually sit against, and change the light — the same three questions every client asks on a site visit, answered before the sample ships.
A scene, not a render of your project: proportions are indicative and colour on a screen is never the colour in a room. Send us the drawings and we will lay the real slab sizes out against your setting-out.
Surface
Ghiandone Aswan, close up
The slab above turns; this is the same stone at the size it sits in your hand. Change the finish and it re-cuts.
Roughly a 130 mm span of Ghiandone Aswan, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.
Specified for
Where Ghiandone Aswan is used
- Facades
- Feature walls
- External paving
- Stairs
- Kitchen tops
Suitability depends on the finish, the thickness and the exposure. If you are specifying for external cladding, wet areas or heavy traffic, send us the detail and we will tell you what we would put in that position.
Technical
Egyptian granite — typical range
| Property | Typical value | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Bulk density | 2,600 – 2,780 kg/m³ | EN 1936 |
| Water absorption | 0.05 – 0.40 % | EN 13755 |
| Compressive strength | 130 – 220 MPa | EN 1926 |
| Flexural strength | 10 – 18 MPa | EN 12372 |
| Abrasion resistance | 12 – 18 mm | EN 14157 |
| Frost resistance | Passes 48 cycles | EN 12371 |
| Mohs hardness | 6 – 7 | — |
| Reaction to fire | Class A1 | EN 13501-1 |
These are indicative ranges for this stone family, published so you can size a design early. They are not a test certificate. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory before you close a specification.
Formats
How Ghiandone Aswan is supplied
Blocks
Quarry blocks selected and squared. Typical 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.5 × 1.5 m, 18 – 30 tonnes. Sold by m³, loaded on flat rack or in-container with steel cradles.
Gangsaw slabs
Full-size slabs from the gangsaw. Marble typically 2.6 – 3.0 × 1.6 – 1.9 m in 2 cm and 3 cm; granite 2 cm and 3 cm. Bundled by block so vein sequence is preserved.
Tiles
Calibrated tiles in 30×30, 30×60, 40×40, 60×60, 60×120 cm and free length, 1.0 – 3.0 cm. Edges straight-cut or bevelled, back-mesh on request.
Cut-to-size
Worked to your drawings — worktops, vanity tops, cladding panels, mitres, cut-outs, drainage grooves, undermount polishing. Supplied piece-marked to a setting-out plan. How a cut-to-size order runs
Steps and risers
Treads with bullnose, half-bullnose or eased edge, anti-slip grooving on request, matched risers and stringers.
Also in granite
Stones that sit alongside it
Red Aswan Dark
The deep oxblood grade, with heavy black mineral.
Aswan360° →
Bianco Halayeb
Pale grey-white granite with fine dark speckle.
Halayeb360° →
Currently unavailable
Breccia Fawakhir
Angular fragments welded into a hard, mottled ground.
Wadi Fawakhir360° →
White Safaga
Light grey-white with an even, fine crystal.
Safaga360° →
Asked about this stone
Ghiandone Aswan — questions buyers ask
What module does it need?
One big enough to carry the crystals. They are the reason to buy the stone, so slabs, large cladding panels and generous cut-to-size show it properly; on a small tile the cuts run through individual crystals and the surface reads busy instead of distinctive.
Is there a grain or vein direction to lay to?
No. The large crystals are scattered through the matrix rather than aligned, so there is no direction to run and panels can be set either way. It also means there is no figure to book-match — the pattern is random at crystal scale.
How much does it vary between blocks?
Like any granite it varies, and at this crystal scale the variation is more visible than in an even-speckled stone such as Rosa El Nasr — how many large crystals a block carries and how hard the pink stands against the grey both show. Take a facade quantity out of one block run and ask for slab photographs first.
Can it be used outside?
Yes — external paving and stairs are listed uses, and it is cut as tiles, cut-to-size and steps. It is not cut as kerbs or cobbles, so the edge and sett lines of an external scheme have to come from another granite; Aswan Red and Grey Aswan both carry the full landscape set.
Get a quote on Ghiandone Aswan.
Send the stone, the finish, the thickness and the destination port. You get a quote with an FOB and a CIF price, a lead time and photographs of the actual material.
We reply within one working day · Saturday – Thursday, 08:00 – 18:00 Cairo time · WhatsApp +20 106 926 2572
Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day