As Antolini® celebrates 70 years of natural stone excellence and Marmomac marks its 60th edition, the Italian brand returns to Verona with two complementary experiences: Infinity Space by Alessandro La Spada and Padiglione Antolini® at Gallerie Mercatali
Marmomac 2026 will be a year of meaningful milestones. As the international fair dedicated to the natural stone supply chain celebrates its 60th edition, Antolini® also marks 70 years since its story began in Verona in 1956. This anniversary celebrates what has always defined Antolini®: the ability to transform natural stone into vision, architecture, innovation, and emotion.
From September 22 to 25, Antolini® will return to Marmomac with a dual presence that brings together two complementary experiences: its exhibition booth at Veronafiere and Padiglione Antolini® at Gallerie Mercatali, the industrial landmark just steps from the fairgrounds. Together, the two spaces offer a layered journey through natural stone, from the immersive and scenographic to the curatorial and contemplative.
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Antolini® Stand: From the Quarry to Infinity Space
Designed by art director Alessandro La Spada, Antolini®’s Marmomac 2026 booth is conceived as an immersive journey through natural stone, light, and reflection, inspired by the primordial force of the quarry. Reflecting on the project, La Spada explains, «From the depths of the quarry to the illusion of infinity, matter becomes an experience to observe, move through, and touch».
The exterior walls, sculpted in an irregular composition of stone surfaces, engage in dialogue with the deep tone of dark cherry, a contemporary reinterpretation of the color of the earth. Inside, a labyrinthine path guides visitors through transparency, reflection, and material depth, leading to Infinity Space: a crystal labyrinth where mirrored floors and ceilings multiply perspectives and expand matter beyond its physical boundaries. Walls clad in Cristallo Vitrum®, a Cristallo/Natural Quartz, interact with reflective surfaces to create an atmosphere of depth and optical expansion, while raised platforms in Quarzite Madeirus quartzite suggest the sensation of stepping across stone elements suspended within a mirrored landscape.
Around this central experience, the booth unfolds as a continuous material narrative rather than a simple display. Blueroots marble, Cipollino GreyWave marble, Pangea Blue marble, and Quarzite Lilac quartzite define the architectural rhythm of the space through shifting tones, veining, and textures, while Pangea Green marble, Patagonia Vitrum Cristallo/Natural Quartz, and Quarzite Cielo® quartzite introduce further moments of chromatic intensity and crystalline luminosity. Large stainless-steel display elements, named Origami, present the surfaces at gentle angles, inviting visitors to move closer and encounter the stone through a more tactile, intimate experience. The journey concludes in a Seventies-inspired lounge, conceived as a place for meeting, contemplation, and connection.
Padiglione Antolini®: A Curated Atlas of Natural Stone
At Gallerie Mercatali, Padiglione Antolini® continues the journey in a more contemplative rhythm. Set within the monumental character of the venue, the project invites selected visitors to discover natural stone as a landscape of identities, colors, geological histories, and design possibilities.
For 2026, Padiglione Antolini® places special emphasis on a curated selection of materials chosen for their expressive and architectural power. The luminous depth of Cristallo Rosa “Wow”, a Cristallo/Natural Quartz, introduces soft pink tones and romantic veining, while Cristallo Traslux, also a Cristallo/Natural Quartz, allows light to penetrate and diffuse through its crystalline structure, creating an ethereal effect. The green intensity of Fuxita Jade quartzite and Irish Green® marble brings a vibrant mineral energy to the space, opening a dialogue with the more dramatic personality of Quarzite Amazonia quartzite, Quarzite Thunderflash quartzite, and Quarzite Venom “Original” quartzite. Together with the key materials also featured at the stand, these stones create a sensorial atlas of nature’s expressive range – from transparency and softness to color, movement, and geological strength.
Together, the booth and Padiglione Antolini® form a double narrative: one experience amplifies stone through reflection, light, and movement; the other invites visitors to slow down and encounter each material as a unique work of nature. In a year marked by important anniversaries, Antolini® chooses to celebrate not with nostalgia, but with a renewed statement of intent: natural stone is ancient, alive, and still endlessly capable of surprising the future.
When: September 22–25, 2026
Where: Veronafiere, Hall A, Booth 15/16
Padiglione Antolini®: Gallerie Mercatali, Viale del Lavoro 11, Verona, Italy
Company Profile
Innovation, variety, vision, and quality are the four pillars that define the identity of Antolini®, an Italian company dedicated to the production of natural stone slabs for the past 70 years. The choice of words describing the company comes from its numbers: today Antolini® offers more than 1300 different types of stones, divided into 14 collections producing 4,500 square meters of slabs a day, reaching one million a year.
Operative in 182 countries, Antolini® has production centers in Brazil and India, as well as management centers and showrooms distributed throughout the world all reporting to the Italian headquarters.
Its history dates back a long way: founded in 1956 in Verona – in northeastern Italy – by Luigi Antolini, the company is now run by the new generations who carry on its historical values, maintaining the quality of Made in Italy with a spirit aimed at the constant search for technological progress and evolution in terms of design and production.
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