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These days it seems like white marble countertops are ruling the renovation world. The versatile, crowd-favorite surface has swept kitchens across the country—we’ve spotted varieties with intricate veining in Texas and classic speckled gray in Utah. However, across the pond, kitchen manufacturer and authority on all things cool DeVol is seeing another kind of stone gain traction with its customers: black granite.
According to DeVol’s creative director, Helen Parker, this material’s resurgence has been nearly 25 years in the making. “Black granite was a staple in the 1990s, and it still has a certain understated luxury, especially when honed,” she says. Prior to the Carrara craze, the coarse-grained, igneous rock was the go-to for nearly every design style—farmhouse lovers and minimalists alike put it in their kitchens. And we can back up Parker’s assessment: Some of our most recent kitchen renovation stories have featured the once dated worktop. If you’re still on the fence, ahead are a few fresh takes on the material, starting with some encouragement to mix and match.
In Erin Zubot’s French-inspired renovation, she contrasted the black granite with a butcher block island. And when paired with creamy beige cabinets, there’s no fear of the dark color visually weighing down her Alberta, Canada, kitchen.
Not only does the wild veining of the granite in this Keri Petersen–designed kitchen offer a marble-like look, the leathered finish leaves a slightly matte appearance (as opposed to honed and polished).
In Brooklyn, photographer Sebastian Kim stuck to one shade for his $28,000 kitchen: black. Taking a note from the age-old fashion trick, the all-graphite palette keeps things sleek. “Black is always a photographer’s color of choice,” notes Kim.
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