Pietra Serena Di Firenzuola Sandstone Slabs

The activity extractive dates back since the fifteenth century, and testimonies and precise data on the use of the material as building stone you are having starting precisely from this period. The stone marked the "genius" of Florence and other major cities of Tuscany, sostanziandone the meaning and identity through the language expressed by the new Renaissance architectural forms and ornamental figures. By Brunelleschi on, through Bramante, Desiderio da Settignano, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tribolo Vasari, reaching the contemporary architect Arata Isozaki, Renzo Piano, Carlo Scarpa, the great artists and architects have appreciated and valued the stone, in adopting for their work, thanks to its qualities of beauty purity and rigor, elegance, naturalness and neutrality, workability and ductility versatility, strength endurance and durability. For these characteristics that summarize the functional aesthetics, this material has always been sought in the design of spaces for human life, private or public, or collective intiimi as palaces, churches, streets and squares.