Know More About Stone Floor Medallion.
Stone Floor medallion is one of the most magnificent and noble decorative products. It is widely used for flooring, wall cladding, table tops in modern architecture and has become designers' and consumers favorite choice. Natural stone medallion typically have the shape of a medal or emblem, consisting various oval or circular pattern so to use for elegant decorations. Stone floor medallions are frequently used as the focal point in a foyer or other floor area. A proper design medallion can make your floor an extraordinary floor
What is stone floor medallion?
Stone medallion is like a natural stone painting pattern created by people using many types of stone instead of paints. The designer takes advantage of the unique color and veins of the natural stone and combine them with artistic conception and design to create a beautiful stone medallion.
Actually, most of the floor medallion are made of marble because of its unique and beautiful veins and also not too hard to process (comparing to granite). So stone medallions are usually called marble medallion. At present there are some special stone floor medallions using sandstone and slate, but they are not as popular as marble medallion.
Stone floor medallion development:
As people demand for more and more complicated medallion pattern, traditional tools can no longer meet this requirement. Thanks to the stone processing technique upgrade, water-jet cutting machines solve this problem and has been widely used in stone medallion manufacturing. Now, some people call stone medallion as water-jet medallion.
In some extend, stone medallion can be viewed as a kind of mosaic art. It is a new product derived from the combination of mosaic art craft and new processing technique. In the earlier years, stone medallions are just some stone tiles putting together and they are just like big-size stone mosaic. In recent years as the application of water-jet technique and upgrade of processing precision, people has brought stone floor medallion to a higher level and formed its own style. But in other countries than China, stone medallion still belongs to stone mosaic.
