The quarry floor.
Twenty years cutting, polishing and installing marble, granite, limestone, engineered quartz and large-format porcelain — across Australia, from a single Tottenham workshop.
Pure Design Projects is a stonemasonry studio whose work begins in the quarry and ends with a quiet handover in a finished room. Two decades on the floor have taught us what each stone wants — limestone takes a softer hand than granite; calacatta rewards the patient; porcelain slabs the size of a small wall demand a calm crew and a perfect shop floor.
We supply and install across Australia — commercial and domestic — from a single workshop in Tottenham. The signature is in the edges. Mitres returned flush enough to read as one block. Bullnoses rolled by hand. Waterfall ends that line up vein to vein.
- Years
- 20+
- Benchtops
- 1ks
- Reach
- AU
- Fabrication
- CNC
Eight stones
we keep in conversation.
A working catalogue — not an exhaustive list. These are the materials we know intimately, slab by slab, and the ones we recommend most often when a room asks a particular question.
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01
NaturalCalacatta
Carrara, Italy · Metamorphic limestone
The benchmark for kitchen islands and master baths. Bright white field, dramatic grey-and-gold veining, takes a polish or a hone equally well.
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02
NaturalCarrara
Tuscany, Italy · Metamorphic limestone
The quieter sibling — softer grey veining over a near-white field. Generous, calm, and almost always the right answer for a bathroom.
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03
NaturalOnyx
Iran, Pakistan, Mexico · Cryptocrystalline silica
Translucent. Back-lit, it becomes a piece of furniture in its own right. Reserved for hearths, bar tops, and one statement wall per project.
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04
NaturalTravertine
Tivoli, Italy · Sedimentary limestone
Warm, porous, honest. Filled and honed for floors; vein-cut for facades. Ages openly, which is the point.
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05
NaturalBluestone
Victoria, Australia · Volcanic basalt
Local. Dense. Sawn for paving, honed for hearths, rough-pitched for retaining walls. The state's working stone.
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06
NaturalGranite
Brazil, India, Australia · Plutonic igneous
Hard-wearing, heat-tolerant, near-indestructible. Honest grain. Where the room asks for permanence.
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07
EngineeredEngineered Quartz
Caesarstone · Smartstone · Silestone
Predictable veining, low-maintenance, generous colour range. The right answer for high-traffic kitchens and family bathrooms.
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08
EngineeredLarge-format Porcelain
Laminam · Neolith · Dekton · 3.2 × 1.6 m sheets
Lightweight, UV-stable, resilient. Ideal for facades, outdoor benches and feature walls. Cuts cleanly, installs flat, behaves outdoors.
A tired 90s laminate kitchen, brought back to material truth. Calacatta Vagli island with mitred waterfall ends, vein-matched splashback, and a single-block hearth in the lounge beyond.
The brief was simple — make it disappear into the building. We selected blocks at the yard for vein continuity, ran the splashback from the same slab as the island, and dry-fit every joint in our Tottenham workshop before delivery.
- Stone
- Calacatta Vagli
- Edge
- Mitred · 40 mm
- Finish
- Honed, beeswax sealed
- Lead time
- 5 weeks · 2024
Twenty-eight steps live between
a quarry block and a finished kitchen.
Most happen on our floor. CNC, hand-finish, dry-fit, polish, dress, deliver — done by the same people that will install the stone in your home.
Selected work,
quietly remembered.
Frequently
asked.
How long does a kitchen take?+
From slab selection to install, a typical kitchen runs five to seven weeks. Complex stone with vein-matching, or stones imported on order, push that to nine.
Do you install, or do you supply only?+
Both. We supply and install across Australia. Our own crew handles every install — never subcontracted — which is why our joints look the way they do.
Marble vs engineered quartz — what should I choose?+
Marble for the room you want to age beautifully. Engineered quartz for the room that does the daily work. Most projects use both.
Can I see the slab before it's cut?+
Yes — and you should. We arrange a yard visit so you can stand in front of the actual block, with us, and we'll mark cut lines together.
What does it cost?+
Stone-dependent. A standard quartz benchtop kitchen begins around AUD 4,500. A vein-matched Calacatta kitchen with mitred waterfall ends sits considerably above that. Send us a plan and we'll come back with a number.
Visit the
workshop.
Our Tottenham floor is open by appointment. Bring plans, a sample cabinet door, paint chips, anything you'd like to read the stone against. We'll walk the slab racks together — three hundred blocks on hand at any one time.
Book a visit →
Tell us about
the room.
Plans, photographs, a sketch on the back of an envelope — send what you have. We'll come back with materials, edge profiles and a realistic timeline.
Send an enquiry →- Studio
- 3/235 Sunshine Road
Tottenham VIC 3012
Australia - Telephone
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(03) 9318 9235
0413 150 889 - Hours
- Mon–Fri · 8:00–17:00
Sat by appointment