Stones for building solid dwellings and smaller stones for decorating and embellishing them. In our times of large construction and industrial mass production and severe building standards and practices, Venetian terrazzo is still widely used in the Friuli and Veneto regions of Italy.

It mimics the palaces in the many artistic cultural centres and represents a living fossil, a relic of the practicality of an interior flooring material that has survived for centuries.

A flooring that adapts well despite many subsequent innovations, reviving dismal rooms with its many colour combinations. For 600 years the terrazzo craftsman from these North-Eastern Italian regions have trodden the paths of Europe and America from London to St Petersburg to New York and beyond armed with their colourful stones (the so called claps, an abundant resource in a region that was difficult to farm).

My family has always been in this business. As a child I played amongst the piles of stones and marble chips my father used to store in the front of our first home in Birmingham.

Adrian Pellarin – Managing Director
Board Member of the National Federation of Terrazzo Marble and Mosaic Specialists
Member of the B.S.I. Technical Committee