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Short history

We develope alabaster lightning and decoration objects since 1991. We are located in Argentina where is a great quality alabaster quarry.
We received the inheritance of old Italian and Argentine craftsmen who transmitted their experience and love to us by this noble material. We made pieces in alabaster, with transparency and luminosity, the characteristics of this one have been similar to the material used by the Italian alabaster craftmen for centuries.

Alabaster's aspect is heightened by veins in tones that vary of the ocher to the black which they denote his natural origin, causing that each piece is unique. The process of each piece begins with the selection of the material in the quarries The carving is made by craftsmen who produce an ample variety of designs in pendants, plafonds, table lamps, scounces, chandeliers, amphoras, table centers, in limited series and exclusive pieces.

The careful completion of the pieces happens through processes of impregnating and furnace finally to arrive at polished and the finished smooth luster that grant quality ending.

The Alabaster stone

The word 'Alabaster' comes from Alabastra, city of the ancient Egypt.
From the antiquity it was used for sculpture, recipients to conserve perfumes and essences like thus also for large windows by its capacity to spread the light and its decorative character.

Its composition is dehydrated calcium sulphate, its hardness oscillates from 2 to 3 of the Mohr scale and its specific weight is 2.75gr/cm cubical. The alabaster is a crystalline variety of the plaster or plaster stone.

The two basic characteristics that cause that the alabaster is appreciated are: that it is translcent, (the Churches of the Valley of the Ebro instead of crystals had worked alabaster slabs) and which the so small size of the grain allows that it is the only stone of the world where a pin can be worked.

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