White quartz

Carrara Mist

Also sold as Q-310

Soft white-grey with diffuse, low-contrast veining.

Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day

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.

Carrara Mist is the low-contrast slab in the white group: a soft white-grey ground with grey drift that fades in and out rather than resolving into hard veins. That matters most where the material is bought by the hundred square metre. In a hotel bathroom programme or an apartment block, dozens of vanity tops and splashbacks have to sit together without one piece pulling the eye, and a diffuse pattern gives the cutting shop far more freedom than a directional one: pieces can be taken from wherever the slab yields best rather than sequenced in order. Colour is held at batch level, so a phased delivery still lands on the same white. It is made to order in polished and honed, in slabs and cut-to-size, and the drift reads much the same either way; the finish decides how much light the room throws back, not how the pattern behaves.

Statuario Alba is the same white family read the other way round: thin, decisive grey veins on a cooler ground, meant to be noticed. Carrara Mist is what you specify when the surface has to stay quiet across a lot of pieces.

Material
Quartz
Colour
White
Origin
Engineered quartz
Availability
Made to order — standard programme
Finishes
Polished, Honed
Formats
Gangsaw slabs, Cut-to-size

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Photographs

Carrara Mist in the yard

We are photographing this material now. Until the shoot is done, the turning slab and the close-up below are renderings, and the honest answer to “what does it actually look like” is a sample in your hand.

No photographs yet. Ask us for the current slab and block photographs of Carrara Mist — we shoot them on request, in the yard, with a scale in frame. A cut sample goes out by courier the same week.

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Laid out

Carrara Mist 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

Carrara Mist against your wall colour

Nobody buys stone on a white background. Put Carrara Mist 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.

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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

Carrara Mist, 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 Carrara Mist, polished. A rendered preview, not a photograph of stock — ask for a physical sample before you specify.

Specified for

Where Carrara Mist is used

  • Vanity tops
  • Kitchen tops
  • Bathrooms
  • Hotel fit-out
  • Splashbacks

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

Engineered quartz — typical range

PropertyTypical valueStandard
Quartz content90 – 93 % by weight—
Bulk density2,300 – 2,450 kg/m³EN 14617-1
Water absorption≤ 0.05 %EN 14617-1
Flexural strength40 – 60 MPaEN 14617-2
Abrasion resistance≤ 32 mmEN 14617-4
Stain resistanceClass 5 (non-porous)EN 14617-13
Mohs hardness6 – 7—
Slab format3200 × 1600 mm · 12 / 20 / 30 mm—

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 Carrara Mist is supplied

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.

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

Asked about this stone

Carrara Mist — questions buyers ask

Is this Italian Carrara marble?

No. It is engineered quartz made to a carrara pattern, so there is nothing to seal and it will not etch from citrus or wine. Our natural marble range is Egyptian — Galala, Sunny, Milly Gray — so if you want stone rather than quartz, the look is a different one.

Do the panels need sequencing or vein matching?

No. The grey drift is diffuse and has no strong direction, so pieces do not have to be run in slab order and joints do not have to be vein-matched. Cut it for yield instead.

Will a second shipment match the first?

Colour on engineered quartz is controlled at batch level, so a repeat order comes back on the same white. On a phased fit-out give us the total area at the start so the whole quantity can come from one production run.

Polished or honed for a bathroom?

Both are standard on this colour. The drift is low contrast in either finish, so the decision is about how much light the room throws back, not about how the pattern reads.

Get a quote on Carrara Mist.

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.

Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day

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