A bookmatched Calacatta Viola powder room in Evanston.
Calacatta Viola on the vanity and on the wall behind it, bookmatched and carried full height to the ceiling. The vanity is a floating block with a mitered edge and a waterfall return.
Bookmatching opens two slabs from the same block like a book, so the veining mirrors across the seam and the wall reads as one piece of stone rather than two. A mitered edge joins the top and the front at 45 degrees, which is what gives the vanity its thickness without a heavy slab. Marble should be sealed and will patina with use, which is why a powder room suits it so well: all of the stone, little of the wear. An Evanston powder room, in Cook County on the North Shore.
Calacatta Viola comes from the Apuan Alps near Carrara, and its purple veining is iron oxide in the stone. With a pattern this bold, bookmatching two slabs from the same block turns the wall into one mirrored piece, and in a powder room the soft marble sees little wear.
Powder room vanity · bookmatched backsplash to the ceiling · waterfall return
