White Carrara marble powder room in Lakeview, Chicago.
White Carrara on a powder room vanity. The stone kept restrained — clean counter, small backsplash — against gold legs and a dark wall.
A bathroom is where marble is easiest to live with: it sees far less acid and wear than a kitchen counter. Like all marble, it should be sealed. A Lakeview home, on Chicago's North Side.
White Carrara has been quarried in Italy's Apuan Alps since Roman times. It has a white to gray-white base with soft, feathery gray veins, and at 3 to 4 on the hardness scale it etches from acids, which makes a powder room vanity an easy place for it.
Vanity counter · backsplash · 3cm
3cm slab on a brass console. Backsplash and counter cut from the same piece, with the sink opening sized to the brass basin.
Lincoln Park · North Center · Roscoe Village · Uptown · Chicago
