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Hand Carving Tradition


Hand Carved for Over 200 years, A Bertoneri Fireplace is steeped in tradition. Carving, figuring and polishing a fireplace by hand is time consuming. Modern technology and tooling has helped but it remains the delicate movement of a Bertoneri artisan that can turn a block of marble or limestone into a stunning fireplace. To watch that genesis before your eyes is something special



Each rough carved fireplace refined using finer and finer tools until the craftsman is happy that that particular piece is worthy to carry the Bertoneri name.

From rough and fine carving the stone passes to our expert polishers who begin the pollishing process. The polisher chooses from a range of substrates which have been specifically designed for the stone he is working on, be it marble, limestone or granite. The polisher works the stone to a beautiful finish, ready to be shipped.