Cream marble

Golden Cream Vein Marble

Also sold as Golden Cream · Cream Gold

Cream ground with straight gold veining — cut with the vein.

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Golden Cream Vein — marble slab
Polished slab

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.

Golden Cream is sawn two ways and this is the vein cut: the block is taken along its bed, so the gold veining reaches the slab as straight parallel lines rather than as figure. Laid end to end, a floor in it acquires a direction, and that has to be decided at setting-out because the lines will be read whichever way they run. Book-matched on a wall the pattern closes into a symmetry that needs nothing else on the panel, which is why wall cladding and feature walls come ahead of flooring in what it is specified for. The ground is a soft cream that sits beside oak and brass without competing with either. Polished, honed and brushed are the finishes cut, and sills are in the format list, so a reveal or a threshold can be run in the same stone as the wall above it.

Golden Cream Flower is the same block sawn the other way, across the bed, and it opens into rounded figure instead of lines. Order by the cut rather than by the name: "Golden Cream" on its own does not tell the saw which face you want.

Material
Marble
Colour
Cream
Origin
Eastern Desert, Egypt
Availability
High
Finishes
Polished, Honed, Brushed
Formats
Blocks, Gangsaw slabs, Tiles, Cut-to-size, Window sills and thresholds

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Photographs

Golden Cream Vein 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

Golden Cream Vein 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.

Golden Cream Vein tile — Egyptian marble

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

Golden Cream Vein against your wall colour

Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Golden Cream Vein 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.

Golden Cream Vein tile — Egyptian marble
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Background colour
Laid as Joint
Light

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

Golden Cream Vein, 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.

Golden Cream Vein surface, close up — Egyptian marble

Roughly a 130 mm span of Golden Cream Vein, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.

Specified for

Where Golden Cream Vein is used

  • Wall cladding
  • Feature walls
  • Interior flooring
  • Reception desks
  • Bathrooms

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 beige / cream marble — typical range

PropertyTypical valueStandard
Bulk density2,600 – 2,720 kg/m³EN 1936
Water absorption0.10 – 0.45 %EN 13755
Compressive strength70 – 110 MPaEN 1926
Flexural strength8 – 14 MPaEN 12372
Abrasion resistance20 – 26 mmEN 14157
Frost resistancePasses 48 cycles (selected stones)EN 12371
Mohs hardness3 – 4—
Reaction to fireClass A1EN 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 Golden Cream Vein 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

Window sills and thresholds

Sills, copings and thresholds with drip groove, polished ends and mitred returns.

Asked about this stone

Golden Cream Vein — questions buyers ask

What is the difference between Golden Cream Vein and Golden Cream Flower?

The cut, not the quarry. Vein is sawn along the bed and gives straight parallel gold lines; Flower is sawn across it and gives rounded, open figure. State which one you want on the order — they are not interchangeable on the same wall.

Can it be book-matched?

Yes, and it is why most buyers take this cut rather than the cross cut. Gangsaw slabs are bundled by block so the vein sequence is preserved; ask for the bundle to stay intact through shipping and for the pieces to be numbered so the sequence survives to site.

Does vein direction matter on a floor?

Yes. With a straight vein the floor gains a direction, so tell us at order stage which way the lines should run relative to the room. It is the one decision on this stone that cannot be corrected once the pieces are cut.

Which finishes are cut on the vein face?

Polished, honed and brushed. There is no antique grade on the vein cut — Golden Cream Flower, the cross cut, is the face that carries antique.

Get a quote on Golden Cream Vein.

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.

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