PETRA | Marss

Innovation imprinted in Salento tradition

What

Petra is the new collection of the GranTurismo series

for high-quality hotel management solutions.

Petra is

Born from the Leccese Baroque tradition, it constitutes a series of stone panels that allow you to customize the models of the GranTurismo series.

Petra's research projects local tradition into the future.

The choice of essences

The choice of stone essences favored the main four extraction quarries that have decorated the entire Salento peninsula for centuries: Classic Leccese Stone, Gray Leccese Stone, Bianca di Ostuni, Carparo.

For this project we turned to BIANCO CAVE, a local company famous throughout the world for its quality and knowledge in dealing with Salento stone

Pietra Leccese

Leccese Stone is a Miocene-period limestone, quarried in the open-pit quarries of Salento. Elegant, refined, velvety, versatile, with its typical straw-yellow colour and warm tones, it has been the undisputed protagonist of the Lecce Baroque, thanks to its good ability to be modelled.

For Petra, the key word for this stone was 'experimentation'.By combining typical Leccese Baroque decorations with the most innovative processing techniques, unprecedented results are achieved, giving rise to furnishing elements with a traditional flavour, even in modern settings.

Bianca di Ostuni

The White Stone of Ostuni is characterized compact by its fine and homogeneous grain, candid and refined, and therefore white, with an elegant appearance. It takes its name from the town of the same name, which is rich in buildings made of this material and is therefore called the "white city."

Its almost marble-like compactness places it in Petra's selection with "Bubbles," the decoration that was chosen to best enhance the properties of this stone. The almost marble-like clarity of this stone is combined with essential geometric shapes that create plays of light and shadow on the flat surface.

Carparo

Carparo is a calcarenitic stone, derived from the cementation of calcareous rock sediments, generally in a marine environment.Despite its porosity, this stone takes on just the right amount of compactness that makes it excellent for decorative elements of prestige.It belongs to the same family as the Lecce stone, but is geologically 'younger', and it is possible to distinguish small remains of shells within it.

In the Petra collection, it stands out for its originality, as, thanks to the high degree of variation of minerals and their granulometry, each element is a unique piece.

Pietra Grigia

Pietra Leccese Grigia is a particular variety of stone characterized by a dark gray color and in cooler tones than the common straw-colored Pietra Leccese, of which it retains the characteristics of compactness and workability. Its color is reminiscent of concrete, which is why it is very suitable for modern environments.

"Water" is the decoration that was chosen to best enhance the properties of this stone. The concept of diffusion generates a parallelism between the primordial act of creating limestone and the technological heart that this element of the Petra collection conceals.