The four ways of taking the shine off
Sandblasting cuts the face with abrasive driven at pressure and leaves an even open texture. Tumbling rolls the pieces until the edges round and the faces soften. A leather finish is brushed to a low sheen with the texture kept. Fine picking strikes the surface with a point.
All four arrive at the same place from different directions, which is a surface that scatters light instead of returning it. On a terrace that is not a style choice; it is what makes the paving usable in sun.
White outdoors, and the heat argument
A pale stone returns more of the sun than a dark one absorbs, which is the oldest reason white marble paves hot places.
Around a pool that is the practical difference between a surface people walk on barefoot at midday and one they avoid. It is also why the pool copings in this range are the same white, since the coping is the piece people put their hands and feet on most. Pool copings covers the edge.
Thicker than a tile by three or four times
An inch and a quarter is the standard thickness here, with pieces at 1.18, 1.97 and two full inches.
A paver carries its own load. Bedded in sand or gravel it has to survive being walked on before the bed settles; laid on a base it spans any small irregularity underneath. Depth is what it does both with, and it is why a marble paver is a different object from a marble floor tile.
The sizes, and the pattern set
16x24 leads, then 12x24, 24x24, 6x12 and 18x36, with 24x36, 16x16 and a Versailles pattern among the rest.
16x24 is a paving proportion rather than a tile one: long enough to read as a slab and narrow enough for one person to place. The pattern set is the multi-size option, which lays without a grid. Stone pattern sets covers how those work.
Pavers and copings from one stone
Pool copings sit in this range alongside the pavers, in the same white and the same finishes.
That is deliberate rather than convenient. A coping caps the pool edge and the deck runs away from it, and the two are seen together from every angle a pool is looked at. Taking both from one stone at one finish is the only way the edge disappears instead of announcing itself.
The named whites here
Mist, Fantasia, Crystal, Sierra, Azure, Bianco, Cosmic and a Calacatta run through this range.
Those are quarry and trade names, and on an exterior stone they describe tone and graining rather than the drama a white marble gets chosen for indoors. A paver is a surface first, so the whites here run to even and quiet rather than heavily veined. White marble tile is the interior stone.
Marble outdoors, honestly
Marble is a calcite carbonate, and outdoors it meets rain rather than household acids. A textured face carries any change far better than a smooth one would, which is another reason every finish here is worked.
Whatever a given piece needs is set out by its maker on the product page. Travertine pavers are the warmer and more porous alternative and porcelain pavers the fired one.
