Quartz, Marble and Quartzite Slabs, Installed and Side by Side

Design Gallery is a kitchen and bath gallery at 900 Sunrise Ave, Roseville, serving Greater Sacramento, where countertop surfaces are seen two ways at once: as full slabs standing upright on dedicated walls, and as finished counters, islands and vanities in the rooms around them. Quartz from Cambria, MSI, Vadara and Silestone, natural marble and quartzite from IRG Stone, and Cosentino's Dekton share one floor, so a choice made on a sample can be checked against a whole sheet and a finished kitchen in the same walk.

The Cambria wall stands full-size Cambria quartz slabs upright, so the movement of each design reads at the scale it will cover. Signature Countertops sets half-size Cambria and Silestone slabs side by side, and the Quartz Collection lays the two makers' samples out together for a first cut of colors.

The MSI wall carries five named MSI slabs: IvoriTaj, Calacatta Castana, SoliTaj, Calacatta Miraggio Gold and Calacatta Elysio. The Vadara wall shows Vadara quartz in sheets large enough to follow one vein across an island, and the Cosentino wall holds Silestone, Siberian Frost among them. Della Terra and more Vadara slabs stand on a third wall of white slab-door cabinetry, where a quartz is read against the fronts it will sit on.

Then the same surfaces appear finished: Vadara Ostara Dawn in the Siena kitchen, Vadara Gossamer Sands in Kyoto, Silestone Charcoal Soapstone in Dubai, and MSI Cashmere Taj under the sinks of the Karran Island. Cambria alone is in fourteen of the displays.

IRG Stone, the Sacramento importer of natural stone, is on the floor as a sample wall and as finished rooms. The IRG sample wall shows the range of colors and veining in one place. The Tokyo kitchen runs Cristalo Himalaya quartzite, the Yellowstone kitchen violet-veined Calacatta Viola marble, and the Amsterdam bath a Calacatta Cremo marble vanity top.

IRG stone also lines the shower bays of the Moen Wall, Calacatta Oro and Taj Mahal among ten stones, frames the Nero Marquina fireplace at Reception, and brings Rosso Levanto and Carrara Venatino into the Vino Lounge. Cosentino's Sensa natural stone finishes the waterfall in the Milano kitchen. No two natural slabs are alike, which is the argument for seeing them large.

The Dekton wall stands full-size slabs of Dekton by Cosentino, and the Dekton samples wall shows the breadth of the range. Dekton Rem and Kelya are finished in the Napa kitchen, and the Éclos display carries Cosentino's layered mineral surface, Phantome among its slabs. How Dekton behaves with heat, sun and scratches is set out on the Cosentino and Dekton surfaces page.

The Table Station exists for the comparison every countertop decision comes down to: a table in Dekton Nara with IRG Stone Bolero placed beside it, so an engineered surface and a natural one sit under the same light and the same hand. Bring a cabinet door or a tile, and it goes on the table too.

A visit starts at the walls, not the samples. Your designer, ours or the one you already work with, narrows the colors on the sample walls, then walks you to the full slabs to read veining, background and edge at the size they will cover, then to a finished kitchen or bath where the same surface sits beside cabinetry, hardware and appliances. The choice is written down with the maker, the color name and the display it was seen in, and travels with you to the designer, architect or builder who draws the project.

Design professionals set up a partnership on the Trade Program page, and the designer directory lists the studios who bring their clients here.

A countertop is chosen against the room it finishes. The kitchen gallery covers the thirty kitchens the slabs are installed in, the bath displays cover vanity tops and shower walls, and custom cabinetry near Sacramento covers the doors and finishes a slab is held against.

From Sacramento, Interstate 80 east to Roseville and the Douglas Boulevard corridor puts you at 900 Sunrise Ave; the Sunrise corridor does the same from the south. Granite Bay is ten minutes west along Douglas Blvd; El Dorado Hills is twenty-five minutes via US-50 and Hazel Ave; Folsom is twenty minutes via East Roseville Pkwy; Rocklin is ten minutes south on Sunrise Ave.