After years dominated by white marble and pale travertine, natural stone is embracing colour with wonderful results. Across residential and hospitality interiors, richly veined burgundies and grounding greens are replacing restrained palettes with spaces that feel layered, expressive and individual. Indeed, rather than providing a backdrop—stone has become the defining feature.
Designers across the world have been instrumental in this shift. Kelly Wearstler, for example, has long championed bold stone as an architectural statement, while Australian designers Yasmine Ghoniem and David Flack continue to celebrate richly coloured marble and expressive material combinations that bring depth and personality to interiors. Rather than pursuing minimalism for its own sake, these designers demonstrate how natural stone can shape atmosphere through colour, texture and form.
Responding to this renewed appreciation for materiality, ABI Interiors introduces three new natural stone collections: Rosso Levanto, Saroma Green Marble and Narita Marble. Each explores colour in a contemporary way while celebrating the unique character of natural stone.
The hero of the collection, Rosso Levanto, is a richly pigmented marble distinguished by deep burgundy tones layered with dramatic white and warm gold veining. A tactile tumbled finish softens its visual intensity, balancing boldness with refinement. Available as a square tile, rounded finger mosaic and inverted finger mosaic, it lends itself to expansive features as well as intricate installations where texture becomes part of the architectural expression.
Offering a quieter counterpart, Saroma Green Marble brings a sense of calm through its earthy palette and honed matte finish. Crafted from Indian Green Marble, its organic tones suggest forest landscapes and weathered mineral formations, making it a natural complement to timber, bronze and other tactile materials. Saroma reflects the growing desire for interiors that foster a deeper connection to nature.
The collection’s most sculptural offering, Narita Marble, introduces dimension through a rounded finger mosaic profile. Carved from jade-green marble, its three-dimensional surface captures shifting light and shadow throughout the day, transforming walls into richly textured architectural elements. The result is a material that feels as considered as it is expressive.
What continues to distinguish natural stone is its inherent individuality. Every tile is cut from organic material, resulting in subtle variations in colour, veining and texture that ensure no two installations are ever identical. These natural differences imbue each project with a sense of authenticity and craftsmanship that manufactured surfaces cannot replicate.
The collection’s mesh-mounted mosaic formats (designed for feature walls and splashbacks, are highly suited to curved surfaces, opening new possibilities for designers exploring sculptural forms and layered material palettes.
As contemporary interiors move beyond the quiet neutrality that has defined recent years, coloured natural stone is reclaiming its place as a material of expression. Rich in geological history yet remarkably current in application, ABI Interiors’ latest collection demonstrates how colour, texture and craftsmanship can come together to create spaces with enduring character.