Creative Edge Master Shop announces a new partnership with International Classic Stones, becoming a sole stocking distributor for Blue Sodalite Marble of Bolivia. The partnership makes Blue Sodalite Marble of Bolivia available to anyone in America who wants sodalite stone in small or large quantities.
The Purest Source of Blue Sodalite in the World
Of the handful of blue sodalite mines in the world, the Bolivian mine, which opened in 1985, is unique because its stone is a pure blue and white. Competing Brazilian sodalite, for instance, comes with black dots covering the blue, and the South African sodalite is green.
The Sodalite Blue Marble of Bolivia is uniform and is the only existing sodalite mine that produces clear, blue sodalite in large enough slabs for use in decorative flooring and other high-end architectural finishes.
The Bolivian mine produces four grades of blue sodalite: Nuvalato, which is 20-30 percent blue; Sapo, which is 60 percent blue, and the highly coveted Royal, which is 80-90 percent blue. A small part of the mountain comes in horizontal stripes of blue and white, and is called Tiger. When it goes to over 80 percent, the blue becomes a deep and dark semi-precious stone.
Blue Sodalite A Standout in Luxury Floors
Sodalite is in demand in luxury floor designs. For instance, sodalite blue is the standout color in a blue tapestry floor rug that Creative Edge created for a government summer palace in Ukraine. This project required massive quantities of the rare stone paired with white thassos, to represent the Ukrainian national colors of blue and white.
Other high-profile projects involving large quantities of sodalite include a medallion created in red, white and blue for the outdoor plaza of the Airmen Training Complex on the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, where sodalite was chosen to represent the blue color of the Air Force emblem. In one private residence, an extensive whole-floor design covering many rooms combined white carrara marble, thassos white, saffron gold and extensive amounts of blue sodalite in elegantly designed medallions and borders.