In our home town, Carrara, they say that the owners of the Betogli quarries, where there's the statuary marble, share one single progenitor: a quarryman born in the small town of Torano who received them as a gift in 1818 from his lover: the Duchess Maria Beatrice D'Este.
Maybe there's something true, since until some decades ago, most of the quarry owners in that place bore the same last name of our grandfather. What's sure is that our grandfather Aldo Vanelli, dubbed "Settecervelli" (seven brains), in the Sixties bought the quarry Zona Mossa in the field of Betogli; and close to that place in 2005 our family purchased the quarry called Poggio Silvestre.
You can see how the story of our quarries is also the story of our family, since when the marble was being brought down manually and bricks of green soap were gathered at home to be used for marble transportation, until the first mechanical digger or diamond wire were acquired, when the neglect of the helical wire ended the ancient way of processing the marble.
Our roots are in those places and stories, the strong connection with quarries and marble has been passed on from one generation to another.
And so, in 2008, our family decided to make another step forward, establishing Staminalstone, born from the will to develop the artistic and creative sides of marble, collaborating with the design and the architecture worlds.
In fact, the relationship with marble has always been defined by the presence of two elements as diverse as integrated: the physicality of the extraction process and the intensity of the feelings that the final work can give.
To the physical effort of the quarryman who extracts the block, it has to be added the creative process made by Staminalstone, which transforms the stone into something completely new, with a typical identity value enriched by an emotional contribution, which makes it unique, differentiated and specifically recognizable.
It is from this new course that the concept of staminality comes to life.

Aldo, Antonella and Stefano Guadagni

"We extract your ideas" talks about the commitment in keeping up with top-ranking ideas. This is how staminality is expressed: the plurality of processes, thoughts and skills which mix to give shape to creativity and design ideas.

Staminalstone is a strategic supplier the decision-makers of great luxury and monumental buildings think of starting from the designing phase; it is a supplier for those companies which see design as a value conductor.