The Natural Quartz Antolini® are born with a rare gift: they allow light to pass through them. As backlit natural stone, quartz combines mechanical strength and glassy luster with an ethereal side of translucencies and reflections. In interior design, backlit surfaces enhance stage sets, boiseries, countertops and feature walls in residential, hospitality and retail settings.

Quartz and backlighting: backlit natural stone for interior design

A primary constituent of many rocks, quartz (trigonal structure) is valued for its hardness, heat resistance and glassy luster: qualities that make backlit natural stone ideal for backlit surfaces. With backlighting, the Natural Quartz Antolini® reveal transparencies, glows and patterns that animate interior design with a scenography of light.

Cristallo Traslux and Cristallo Vitrum “Wow”: backlit surfaces of backlit natural stone

In the Natural Quartz Antolini® catalogue, Cristallo Traslux offers veiled transparencies, while Cristallo Vitrum “Wow” expresses a clear, almost icy brilliance: two variations of backlit natural stone perfect for backlit surfaces that emphasize texture and color in contemporary interior design.

Patagonia Vitrum and Patagonia Original “Extra”: Natural Quartz Antolini® for dramatic interior design

Patagonia Vitrum and Patagonia Original “Extra” show the harmony between quartz and feldspars: the material alternates translucent areas—which, as backlit natural stone, light up like crystals—and opaque fields that create magnetic contrasts. The result is backlit surfaces with strong impact, ideal for high-end residential, hospitality and retail.

Alluminate Collection & Allight Collection: when natural stone is not originally backlit

Not all stones are born translucent. With the Alluminate Collection and the Allight Collection, Antolini® extends the concept of backlit natural stone to granites, quartzites and marbles: engineered solutions that make backlit surfaces possible even where nature did not provide for it, expanding options for contract interior design.

Antolini® and Natural Quartz: backlit surfaces between matter and light

The backlit surfaces of the Natural Quartz Antolini® tell of natural stone as a living language: veins that hold geological memories and a backlit quartz that amplifies emotion, transforming walls and planes into lighting scenographies for a distinctive interior design.