Grand Luxury Villa, Wuhan
High-contrast Nero Portoro galleries inlaid with architectural brass fillets, micro-lapped to form an unbroken monolithic walking surface.
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What this project had to solve
Brass fillets inlaid flush with Nero Portoro, lapped so the metal and stone read as one surface.
Stone palette: Nero Portoro, Crema Marfil, brass inlay.
Grand Luxury Villa, Wuhan in detail
A contemporary residence in Wuhan demanded high-contrast corridors featuring Nero Portoro marble with recessed geometric brass tracery spanning the formal entertaining wing.
Combining metals and crystalline marble presents distinct expansion rates and polishing characteristics. Our technicians cut interlocking channels to strict tolerances, inserting custom-drawn solid brass ribbons before surface lapping.
The entire composite floor was honed and polished in our workshop as a single monolithic surface, eliminating tactile ridges or lippage between the brass fillets and delicate golden Portoro veins.
Delivered with custom non-reactive setting mortars and maintenance guidelines, the brass-inlaid stone retains its crisp metallic luster under ambient residential lighting.
From drawing to crating
Full-size drawing
The pattern is drawn 1:1 on the atelier floor before any stone is cut, so proportions are settled at the scale you will walk on.
Stone selection
Blocks and slabs are chosen against the drawing, vein by vein, and photographed for your approval.
Waterjet cutting
Multi-axis waterjet cuts every piece direct from the approved CAD file, held to ±0.1mm across the whole figure.
Dry assembly & crating
The composition is assembled, inspected and numbered on the factory floor, then crated with a setting plan.