Carrara marble is one of the most prestigious ... Think of the Pantheon in Rome or Michelagelo's iconic statue, David. The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany ...

The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is widely regarded as the purest and most valuable in the world. Before ...

Since then, many other giants—think Bernini, Canova—have put their chisels to Carrara stone. Now, there's an upstart. And ...