Every meticulously illuminated detail can transform rooms, highlighting specific elements and creating a welcoming and refined atmosphere.
Thanks to its beauty and unique characteristics, onyx is an ideal material for enhancing interior and exterior design, especially lighting.
This versatile stone offers a wide range of applications, from flooring to furnishing accessories, from candle holders to jewelry. Architects and designers rely on this material to craft sophisticated atmospheres and luxurious environments, especially when they utilize its potential for backlighting, which enhances its versatility.
The legend of onyx
Derived from the Greek word "onyks," meaning "nail" or "claw," the name onyx hints at its divine origins.
Legend has it that Cupid cut Venus' nails with the tip of an arrow while she was sleeping, spreading them on the floor. Later, the three Fates transformed them into precious gems to preserve a part of the divine body.
What material is onyx?
Onyx is a rare stone formed from colored calcareous sediments created by calcareous concretions from spring water and infiltration.
It is a cryptocrystalline mineral with transparent translucence. Available in various chromatic varieties, onyx is renowned for its extraordinary translucence, enabling stunning backlighting effects.
Our special varieties of onyx
Our onyx varieties are selected with great care and attention thanks to careful research worldwide.
Among our most popular varieties are:
Pakistani Green Onyx is a precious stone from the namesake country in South Asia, often backlit and used as a decorative stone. The background is mainly light green, but broad patches of more intense green, golden, and orange veins and light white and beige elements enhance it.
Tiger onyx is characterized by its characteristic warm color, rich in orange, red, and burgundy. This gives it a fluid, detailed sense of movement. The polished finish enhances the beauty of this incredible stone, making it perfect for refined finishes, backlit features, and combinations with other materials to create an environment of exclusive elegance.
This precious Multicolor Onyx stands out with its riot of colors and shades.
It is a stone famous for its spectacular colors, which range from white to orange and from red to black.
At times, the veins and patterns are achieved through a unique extraction method, opposite to the natural direction of the veins. This makes each block even more exceptional and distinctive.
Onyx in architecture and design
Onyx's low refractive index allows light to penetrate through, creating elegant luminous effects that impart personality and character to spaces.
Due to its hardness, durability, and impermeability, onyx is ideal for a variety of interior applications, including floors, wall cladding, stairs, bathrooms, kitchens, walls, tables, chandeliers, furniture doors, as well as bar and restaurant counters.
The maintenance of onyx
To maintain onyx, avoiding acidic products and cleaning products based on ammonia is essential.
We recommend using water and alcohol or neutral cleaning products to keep the shiny surface unchanged.
Conclusions
Choosing with style is an art, but having the ability to choose is exclusive: each of our materials evokes a distinct emotion, some of which can only be experienced through us.
Onyx is a natural stone that combines beauty, uniqueness, and versatility, making it ideal for exclusive design projects.
