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Stone Fireplaces

Stone Fireplaces as Room-Defining Architecture

From classically carved marble mantelpieces to sweeping contemporary chimney breasts, we design and fabricate bespoke stone fireplaces in marble, granite, and quartz — each one the focal point of its room.

Our Approach

Every fireplace surround is a room's centrepiece

A fireplace is the room's natural focal point — the surface that draws every eye the moment you enter. We design every surround in direct dialogue with the room's proportions, ceiling height, and existing architectural character, ensuring the piece feels native rather than installed.

From simple contemporary profiles to elaborate classical mantelpieces with carved corbels and pilasters, our workshop handles the full range of fabrication complexity. Every piece is custom-sized to your opening, with heat-resistant fixings and specialist grouts rated for proximity to live flame.

We work in marble, granite, travertine, and engineered quartz — each material responding differently to firelight, and each suited to a different architectural language. Whatever your room demands, we have the stone that answers it.

Grand Calacatta Marble Classical Mantelpiece
Nero Marquina Black Marble Statement Fireplace
Travertine Classical Fireplace with Carved Details
Verde Guatemala Marble Grand Fireplace

Portfolio

Fireplaces We've Created

A look at the range of stone fireplaces we design and fabricate — from minimal contemporary profiles to grand classical mantelpieces.

Grand Calacatta Marble Classical Mantelpiece
Marble

Grand Calacatta Marble Classical Mantelpiece

A grand Calacatta marble fireplace surround, with its classical proportions and bold grey veining, is among the most powerful architectural statements available in residential design. The mantelpiece commands the room from across the space — the white stone glowing in the firelight, the veining creating a composition that changes with every angle and every hour of the day. This is the material that has defined great fireplaces in great houses for centuries, and every new installation adds to that tradition.

Absolute Black Granite Minimalist Fireplace
Granite

Absolute Black Granite Minimalist Fireplace

An Absolute Black granite fireplace surround is the purest expression of contemporary fireplace design. The sleek, unornamented profile — no corbels, no pilasters, no decorative detail — places the entire visual weight on the material itself. The polished black surface catches the firelight and throws it back across the room in warm flickers, creating an animated interplay between stone and flame that is impossible to look away from. For interiors that prize material quality over decoration, this is the definitive choice.

White Quartz Engineered Stone Fireplace
Quartz

White Quartz Engineered Stone Fireplace

An engineered white quartz fireplace surround delivers the precision and consistency that natural stone cannot always provide. The perfectly uniform white surface, clean geometric profile, and flawless edges create a fireplace of architectural rigour — a surface that reads as an extension of the room's architecture rather than a separate decorative element. It is the fireplace choice for interiors where every detail has been resolved with exactness, and where one imperfect stone surface would undermine the whole.

Nero Marquina Black Marble Statement Fireplace
Marble

Nero Marquina Black Marble Statement Fireplace

Nero Marquina marble — jet black with a bold network of brilliant white veining — creates a fireplace surround of absolute drama. The high-contrast pattern of white veins against black ground creates a visual intensity that is extraordinary in any room. In a living space where bold material choices define the design language, a Nero Marquina fireplace becomes the focal point from which everything else takes its cue. It is one of the most striking stones in our collection, and one of the most rewarding to specify.

Travertine Classical Fireplace with Carved Details
Marble

Travertine Classical Fireplace with Carved Details

Travertine has been the material of choice for classical fireplace surrounds since the Renaissance. Its warm beige tones, gently textured surface, and natural softness make it supremely suited to carved detailing — the stone takes a chisel beautifully, allowing corbels, friezes, and mantel shelf edges to be shaped with precision and warmth. This surround, with its restrained classical vocabulary, fits naturally into both period properties and contemporary interiors that draw on the classical tradition.

Pietra Grey Granite Floor-to-Ceiling Chimney Breast
Granite

Pietra Grey Granite Floor-to-Ceiling Chimney Breast

A floor-to-ceiling Pietra grey granite chimney breast — the entire wall face from floor to ceiling in a single material — creates the most architecturally powerful fireplace installation possible. The subtle grain of the grey granite, honed to a soft matte finish, creates a surface that is simultaneously minimal and intensely present. Set into a Scandinavian-influenced living room with clean lines and natural materials, the granite chimney breast becomes the room's entire visual logic.

Verde Guatemala Marble Grand Fireplace
Marble

Verde Guatemala Marble Grand Fireplace

Verde Guatemala marble — deep forest green with white, grey, and burgundy veining — makes a fireplace surround of extraordinary visual power. In a grand traditional living room with high ceilings and period detail, the richly coloured stone creates a fireplace that commands the room with complete authority. The polished surface catches the warmth of firelight and amplifies it, creating a visual depth in the green stone that no photograph can fully capture. This is a material choice for clients who understand that great interiors are defined by singular, committed decisions.

Bianco Carrara Marble Ornate Period Fireplace
Marble

Bianco Carrara Marble Ornate Period Fireplace

An ornately carved Bianco Carrara marble fireplace — with pilasters, corbels, a detailed frieze, and a projecting mantel shelf — is the quintessential English period fireplace, and the finest example of what skilled stone carvers can achieve with a naturally white, workable marble. Every carved detail is cut by hand, with each profile refined and checked against the drawing. The result is a piece of fine architecture that has been the centrepiece of distinguished rooms for over two hundred years, and will continue to be for two hundred more.

Rosso Levanto Red Marble Fireplace
Marble

Rosso Levanto Red Marble Fireplace

Rosso Levanto red marble — with its deep burgundy-red ground and network of white veining — is among the most dramatically beautiful natural stones available, and a fireplace surround in this material is a statement of the highest order. The rich colour deepens in firelight, becoming more intense and luminous as the evening progresses. Combined with the warmth of the flame, the red stone creates an atmosphere of extraordinary intimacy and depth that makes a room unforgettable.

Azul Bahia Blue Granite Feature Fireplace
Granite

Azul Bahia Blue Granite Feature Fireplace

Azul Bahia granite — an extraordinary Brazilian stone of deep blue, silver, and gold — creates a fireplace installation unlike any other. The iridescent surface shimmers with mineral complexity that changes completely with lighting conditions, making each moment beside this fireplace a slightly different visual experience. It is the rarest and most unusual stone in our collection, and a fireplace surround in Azul Bahia is a commission for clients who want their home to contain something genuinely one-of-a-kind.

Client Stories

What Our Clients Say About Their Fireplaces

"The Calacatta marble mantelpiece Ceraxo installed is the most beautiful thing in our home. The firelight plays on the stone in a way that changes with every evening. It's endlessly captivating."

Hélène Gagnon

Residential Client, Westmount

"Our Absolute Black granite fireplace is exactly what our contemporary home needed — precise, powerful, and completely without decoration. The stone and the flame are all the detail required."

Mathieu Bouchard

Residential Client, Plateau Mont-Royal

"The Nero Marquina marble fireplace is extraordinary. The contrast of the white veining against the black stone is almost musical in its intensity. Guests always gravitate toward it."

Véronique Tremblay

Residential Client, Outremont

"Ceraxo fabricated a carved travertine fireplace surround for our period property and the quality of the carving is as good as anything I've seen in comparable historic installations. Truly exceptional."

Robert Desroches

Property Owner, Vieux-Montréal

"The Calacatta marble mantelpiece Ceraxo installed is the most beautiful thing in our home. The firelight plays on the stone in a way that changes with every evening. It's endlessly captivating."

Hélène Gagnon

Residential Client, Westmount

"Our Absolute Black granite fireplace is exactly what our contemporary home needed — precise, powerful, and completely without decoration. The stone and the flame are all the detail required."

Mathieu Bouchard

Residential Client, Plateau Mont-Royal

"The Nero Marquina marble fireplace is extraordinary. The contrast of the white veining against the black stone is almost musical in its intensity. Guests always gravitate toward it."

Véronique Tremblay

Residential Client, Outremont

"Ceraxo fabricated a carved travertine fireplace surround for our period property and the quality of the carving is as good as anything I've seen in comparable historic installations. Truly exceptional."

Robert Desroches

Property Owner, Vieux-Montréal

"The floor-to-ceiling grey granite chimney breast is the room's entire visual logic. It is simple, architectural, and absolutely perfect. Ceraxo understood exactly what we were trying to achieve."

Sara Lévesque

Architect, Mile End

"The Verde Guatemala marble fireplace in our drawing room has become the most talked-about room in our home. The richness of that green stone in firelight is extraordinary. We couldn't be more pleased."

James Beaumont

Residential Client, Hampstead

"The Rosso Levanto marble fireplace creates the most extraordinary atmosphere on winter evenings. The red stone deepens in the firelight in a way that makes the room feel genuinely magical."

Andrée Fontaine

Residential Client, Rosemère

"I designed an Azul Bahia granite fireplace for a client who wanted something completely unique. Ceraxo sourced the exact slab and fabricated it flawlessly. The result is genuinely one of a kind."

Brigitte Morin

Interior Designer, Montreal

"The floor-to-ceiling grey granite chimney breast is the room's entire visual logic. It is simple, architectural, and absolutely perfect. Ceraxo understood exactly what we were trying to achieve."

Sara Lévesque

Architect, Mile End

"The Verde Guatemala marble fireplace in our drawing room has become the most talked-about room in our home. The richness of that green stone in firelight is extraordinary. We couldn't be more pleased."

James Beaumont

Residential Client, Hampstead

"The Rosso Levanto marble fireplace creates the most extraordinary atmosphere on winter evenings. The red stone deepens in the firelight in a way that makes the room feel genuinely magical."

Andrée Fontaine

Residential Client, Rosemère

"I designed an Azul Bahia granite fireplace for a client who wanted something completely unique. Ceraxo sourced the exact slab and fabricated it flawlessly. The result is genuinely one of a kind."

Brigitte Morin

Interior Designer, Montreal

Inspiration

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Our inspiration library contains hundreds of completed projects — fireplaces, kitchens, bathrooms, floors, and more — all photographed in real homes and commercial spaces.

Browse at your own pace and bring what speaks to you to your consultation.

Absolute Black Granite Minimalist Fireplace
Pietra Grey Granite Floor-to-Ceiling Chimney Breast
Bianco Carrara Marble Ornate Period Fireplace
Azul Bahia Blue Granite Feature Fireplace

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Every fireplace we fabricate is entirely bespoke — designed for your room, your opening, your aesthetic. Bring us your vision and we'll build something that lasts for life.