Cabinet Against a Marble Back Panel
A wine cabinet set against a book-matched marble panel, where the stone is the background and the frame has to hold its line against a surface that never repeats.
What the photographs show
Bottles in front of a lit marble panel, the veining running across the wall behind the shelves, and the frame kept thin so the stone stays visible between the rows. Stone floor below, stone behind: the cabinet is the only man-made line in the view.
What the build had to solve
Stone changes two numbers. The frame cannot be fixed through the marble, so the cabinet carries its own frame and is fixed to the structure behind it, and the backlight for the stone is built as a separate layer with its own service access. The 18 mm frame line matters more here, because anything heavier cuts the panel into strips.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: a thin frame over stone. Worth avoiding: fixing through the marble — the repair never matches, and the vein runs the wrong way afterwards.
- Back panel
- Book-matched marble, lit separately
- Frame
- Fixed to structure, not through the stone
- Service
- Separate access for the panel light
- Frame line
- 18 mm, kept thin over stone
- Glass
- Tempered where glazed, panes up to 2,400 mm
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
Can you work with our stone?
Yes, and we prefer to. The stone goes in first, then we measure to it, because a stone panel is the one surface that cannot be scribed to afterwards without showing.
Does backlit stone need special access?
It needs a service gap and a way in. We design that as a removable lower panel rather than a door, so it stays invisible in the room.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.