LAMINAM® Cristallo Gold

An impressive image emerges in the slab: the ground tone is a very pure, cool bright white with subtle warm undertones — almost like crystalline snow or frozen water. Across this ground tone runs a branched network of gold-amber veins of varying strength: fine, almost gossamer lines alternate with more strongly pronounced main veins that draw diagonal axes of movement across the slab. The vein colour varies between warm golden amber and a deeper honey tone — depending on the incidence of light, the veins appear almost metallically lustrous or warm and earthy. The image evokes the fluid, organic vein structure of rare Calacatta Gold marbles from the Apuan Alps, technically without their natural stone risks.

Laminam broadly distinguishes three lines within its range: Diamond (luxurious dramatic marble looks such as Cristallo Gold, Calacatta Black), Fokos (urban concrete looks), IN-SIDE and Naturali (designs with a natural stone and dimension stone character), Calce/Cementi (mineral concrete and limestone looks). Cristallo Gold is the premium statement of the Diamond family.

Technically it is a large-format porcelain: a composite material of mineral raw materials (clays, feldspars, quartzes and natural pigments) pressed under high pressure into a slab and sintered at temperatures above 1,200 °C. The result is a fully through-sintered, chemically non-reactive ceramic material with water absorption < 0.1 %. Cristallo Gold is expressly acid-resistant, heat-resistant (hot pans can be set down directly — no trivet required), scratch-resistant, frost-resistant, food-safe and fully UV-stable — the ideal material class for applications that have to combine a dramatic marble image with full material robustness.

Laminam produces Cristallo Gold as standard in the large formats 1,200 × 3,000 mm in various thicknesses: Laminam 3+ (3 mm, with a glass-fibre mesh backing for wall and furniture applications), Laminam 5 and 5+ (5 mm, for floor and wall applications), Laminam 12+ (12 mm, the classic kitchen worktop and vanity top thickness), Laminam 20+ (20 mm, robust external applications with higher impact loading). Among the surfaces, Laminam distinguishes several options: Rain (matt, lightly textured), Caress (velvety soft) and Polished Starlit (with an incorporated quartz powder formula for a brilliant gloss and a distinctive sparkle effect).

At ROSSITTIS we currently carry Cristallo Gold as large-format slabs in 12 mm and 20 mm thickness with a Soft Touch surface (the Laminam designation is "Caress" — a matt, velvety surface variant that is particularly pleasant to the touch, allows the slab image to work without high gloss and is especially versatile in use). On request we fabricate from these kitchen worktops, islands, vanity tops, bathroom wall claddings, outdoor kitchen counters, pool surrounds, façade elements, furniture and table surfaces, wall claddings and large-format accent surfaces. The 1,200 × 3,000 mm format frequently allows continuous slab surfaces without butt joints — a convincing design advantage over smaller-format materials, particularly for vertical statement walls, island tops or floor areas.

For anyone comparing Cristallo Gold with other materials: the stylistic model is real Calacatta Gold (Italian marble from the Apuan Alps, Carrara region) — geologically more authentic, but more expensive, acid-sensitive and with all the care requirements of natural stone. Real onyx variants (Onice Bianco, Onice Pakistan) also offer translucent effects, but are very sensitive and suitable only for selected applications. In the porcelain field, competing products such as Florim Calacatta Gold, ABK Calacatta Gold or Lioli Calacatta Gold offer similar designs, each with its own aesthetic accents — Laminam's Cristallo Gold is distinguished by the particularly fine drawing of its vein structure and by the Diamond Collection brand promise.

Our honest assessment: LAMINAM Cristallo Gold is a distinctly luxurious choice for projects that want to combine a dramatic Calacatta Gold image with full material robustness, suitability for external use and carefree properties. Anyone seeking maximum geological authenticity and accepting the care effort should reach for real Calacatta Gold. But anyone who wants the luxuriously elegant image of a white-and-gold premium marble — with full heat, acid and UV resistance, in large formats without butt joints, equally usable in interior and external applications — gets a technically outstanding and visually very effective material with Cristallo Gold.