Matching grain and figure: How stone joints are handled

A stone joint detail. Slabs cut from the same raw stone are joined in a mirrored, book-matched fashion, with the grain unfolding perfectly symmetrically at the joint; the joint itself is less than one millimeter wide and not filled with colored grout. Corners are mitered at forty-five degrees, so the cut edge thickness of the stone is not visible, making it appear as a single solid piece of stone. The front edge of the countertop is thickened to six centimeters. Avoid: discontinuous grain at the joint, using noticeable colored grout, exposing the thin cut edge of the stone at corners, making the countertop the standard two-centimeter thickness.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處石材的接縫細節。同一塊原石切出來的板材以鏡像的方式左右對開拼接,紋理在接縫處完全對稱地展開;接縫本身細到一毫米以內而且不填膠色。轉角處是四十五度斜切對接,看不到石材的斷面厚度,看起來像一整塊實心的石頭。檯面的前緣加厚到六公分。避免:讓接縫處的紋理不連續、使用明顯的填縫膠色、在轉角露出石材的薄片斷面、把檯面做成兩公分的標準厚度。