One thing, done properly
Raw blocks from Anatolia to European processors. We do not process stone and we do not sell finished product: what we add is the selection, and that is what to judge us on.
Company
Who we are
What we do
We source raw marble, travertine and onyx blocks from quarries across Türkiye and sell them to European processors. A buyer tells us the material, the format and the quality he needs. We find it, and not only in the quarries that exhibit at fairs. We go to the block and select it ourselves.
The people
There are four of us, between Türkiye and the Veneto. The people you deal with are the people who go to the quarry.
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Berkay Akdoğan
Selection and quarry relationships
Ten years in Turkish block export.
Basedİzmir, Türkiye
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Andrea Candus
Account Executive
BasedVerona area, Italy
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Berkay Karabıyık
Account Executive
BasedVerona area, Italy
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Anıl Öner
Quarry relationships and commercial operations
BasedTürkiye
The name
Cnidia is the Aphrodite of Knidos. Marmi is Italian.
Knidos, Cnidus to the Romans, was a Greek city at the tip of the Datça peninsula, in Muğla province. Around 360 BC Praxiteles carved an Aphrodite for it, the first life-size nude of a woman in Greek sculpture. Nearly every Venus made since descends from that figure. The original is lost. The best known of the Roman marble copies stand in Rome, one in the Vatican Museums and one in Palazzo Altemps. Carved for Anatolia, kept in Italy. The name says the whole business.
Past the fair circuit
The quarries that exhibit at Verona are a part of the Turkish basin, not all of it. What you are looking for is often in a quarry with no stand, and that is where someone has to go.
The risk sits with us
Photographs and video of the block before loading, numbered against the packing list. If what lands does not match, we take it up with the quarry. You do not.
Come and see
We organise quarry visits: fly into İzmir, three quarries in two days, you select on site.