Church Marble Projects 2023 - Church Supply Warehouse

- WHO WE ARE - ARCHITECTURE

- SERVICES

- STONE CONSULTING

- SCULPTURE

- MOSAICS

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WHO WE ARE and WHAT WE DO

The Spagnoli marble workshop is a family owned company located in Carrara, Italy.

Franco Spagnoli started his activity as marble sculptor for several old studios of Carrara and Pietrasanta. His talented skills brought Franco to be well known firstly in his home town. During the years he became owner of his workshop.

Passion, vision, tradition are the pillars on which he founded our company.

Today the Franco Spagnoli workshop is growed up a lot and moved in a new bulding to satisfy all requests caming from different parts of the world.

The new studio is divided in two main sectors:

- The carving section: where we develope hand made marble statuary starting from sketches, photos and clay or plaster models.

- The architectural section: here the design become a marble realty. Our workshop han invested in new technology for cut machine, polishing and carving.

Thanks high quality of work we do we has established solid partnership with several companies and completed important interior projects of Churches and Cathedrals.

Services

ARCHITECTURE

• liturgical consulting

• big archives with photos of old marble works for

• liturgical furnishings (more than 1000 pcs)

• new drawings and render 3D

• high quality fabrications

• prefitting

• assembling drawings

• highly qualified packaging and destination shipment

SCULPTURE

• liturgical consulting

• big archives with photos of old marble works forstatuary (more than 1000 pcs)

• handmade drawings for custom statues (more than 550 pcs drawings of scuplure and saints)

• clay models

• plaster models (gypsoteco with 400 marble reproduction models)

• execution of high quality sculptures serving

• cathedrals for over 40 years

• highly qualified packaging and destination shipment

SCANNER 3D

STATUARIO CALACATA

ARABESCATO WHITE CARRARA FIOR DI PESCO

YELLOW SIENA RED ALICANTE RED VERONA RED LEVANTO RED FRANCIA

GREEN ALPI GREEN GUATEMALA LIMESTONE BOTTICINO CLASSICO BOTTICINO FIORITO

EMPERADOR CATTANI SKY NERO CATTANI MARQUINIA PORT LAURENT

The Franco Spagnoli art Studio is specialized in the production of liturgical projects. We assist the client from the design phase to on-site installation if requested to provide a turnkey product.

Every project whether small or large follows the same process that begins with the creation of technical drawings and 3d renderings faithful to the finished product.

Another very important phase is dedicated to ston consulting to ensure the use of the most suitable marble for the client. In church renovation projects thanks to our skills we are able to guarantee the exact reproduction of the existing details and marbles inside the church.

Our long experience in this field has allowed us to have an extensive portfolio and below are some of our projects.

St. Peters Cathedral

Scranton, Philadelphia

All our projects are completely fabricated in Italy in our workshop. Starting from the simpler furnishing to a complite interior Cathedral project, we follow the same iter to guaratee to our customer the best quality of “ Made in Italy ”.

The goal of this project was to match exactly all the details and types of marbles already existing inside the cathedral.

This was possible thanks to an harmonious collaboration between the customer and our company.

Summary of the project

Altar of Sacrifce

Altar of Repose

Cathedra

Back wall cathedra

Ambo

Baptisimal font

Floorings

Steps

Gold mosaics

Materials used

White Carrara “C” marble

Yellow Siena marble

Arabescato marble

Bardiglio imperiale marble

Calacatta marble

Stone consulting

The choice of the materials is the frst step of a fabrication. The importance of this stage increases when the new project have to match existing marbles inside the Cathedral, as like happens for this work. Thanks our connections we have with quarries and marble suppliers we can fnd the right material for your needs the

Novena Church Singapore

Summary of the project

Altar

Candles holder

Flooring

Materials used

Statuary marble extra White Carrara “C”

Red Alicamnte

Stone consulting

The big deal at this project was sometimes high quality details of carvings and highest quality of marble avaible is not enought. In this particular project has taken a central role the veins contained within the block of marble. This was possibile thanks the collaboration between the architect’s vision and our experience.

Franco Spagnoli spent 5 days up to the Carrara quarries in the company of the architect to search the block of marble that would meet the particular request. Thanks to our deep-rooted knowledge of marble and land we have obtained the much requested result.

Opening Ceremony

Franco and Luca Spagnoli were invited by the donor to be part of opening ceremony, gratefully to them for the high quality of the work. They were onored to take part to the mess to close the relic box of the Altar. Totally satisfed the expectation of high quality Italian craftsmanship.

Saint Patrick’s Parish Virginia

Summary of the project

Ambo

Materials used

Black Marquinia

Botticino Classico

St. Clement Church

Calhoun, Georgia

Summary of the project

Two side furnishings for tabernacle elevation

Step elevation

Flooring

Materials used

Botticino classico

White Carrara

Yellow Siena

Dallas, Texas

Summary of the project

Altar

Tabernacle

Pedestal

Materials used

Botticino classico

St. Luke The Evangelist Church

Raleigh, North Carolina

Summary of the project

Altar of Sacrifce

Alter of repose Baptismal font

Ambo

3 pedestals

Materials used

Botticino Classico

Cathedral of Mary of Assumption

Saginaw

Summary of the project

Altar of repose

Ambo

Tabernacle peestal

Wall covering yellow Siena bookmatch

Flooring Steps

Our lady of Assumption marble statue

Statue pedestal

Baptismal font

Materials used

Botticino classico

Red alicante

Yellow Siena

White Carrara “C”

Stone Consulting

The entire project was manufactured using a single 30-ton block from which all the furnishings were obtained.

This choice has allowed us to give a sense of uniformity to the project starting from the foor up to the altar table.

Last supper altar with gold leaf

Summary of the project Altar

Materials used

Botticino Classico

Real gold leaf 24kt

Our studio do also gold leaf works. This is an example of what we do.

Our client ask us to cover the marble last supper relief with reald gold leaf 24kt.

Our expert craftsman is carving the last supper relief . Each detail is carved respecting the tradiotion of liturgy. This is possible matching carving skills and passion for what we do.

St. Jude Church

Summary of the project

Altar of Sacrifce

Alter of repose

Baptismal font

Ambo

Materials used

White Carrara “ C “

Arebescato

Our Studio worked in collaboration with our clients to complete the interior renovation of the St. Jude church in Oahio.

The customer asked to reproduce all furnishings with gothic arches applied on arbescato marble panels.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church

Summary of the project

Ambo

Materials used

Black Marquinia

Botticino Classico

Miracolous Medal Shrine

Philadelphia

Summary of the project

Two side furnishings for tabernacle elevation

Step elevation

Flooringl

Materials used

White Carrara “ C “ marble

Red Licante

Yellow Siena

Saint Maximilian Kolbe Church

Westchester, PA

Summary of the project

Ambo

Materials used

Black Marquinia

Botticino Classico

Sculpture

Portfolio

Sculpture is the pillar on which the company was built.

Franco Spagnoli, the founder , started out as a sculptor for the old workshops in Carrara where he learned the traditional skills and techniques handed down from the old craftsmen.

He opens his own workshop and from that moment Franco Spagnoli art Studio grows continuously to become an international reality.

The company boasts countless sculptures made during its 40 years of activity and this experience is continuously put at the service of the client and updated with the best processing technologies .

Tradition and innovation come together to ensure maximum quality and efficiency.

The studio has more than 400 plaster models and thousands of photos and handmade drawings so it can satisfy all kinds of requests. Below is an example of some of our sculpture projects.

Our Lady of Fatima Shrine

Summary of the project

7’0’’ Our Lady of Fatima statue

5’0’’ Angel of Peace

5’0’’ Pope John Paul II

3’0’’ Three children kneeling statues Marble tree

pedestal

Quadrifoil marble base for Fatima

Quadrifoil marble base for John Paul statue

Marble base for three children

Materials used

White Carrara “ C “ marble

Bardiglio marble

Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral

Raleigh, North Carolina

Sacred heart of Jesus marble statue

Materials used

White Carrara “ C “ marble

St. Jude Catholic Church

Fredericksburg, Virginia

St. Michael Marble Statue

Materials used

White Carrara “ C “ marble

The Franco Spagnoli marble workshop is proud to had collaborated to the beauty of St. Jude Church.

Thanks our well known artistic skill we was selected to reproduce the life size St. Michael marble statue.

Starting from a photo and thanks the plaster concept we received from our customer ,we’ve carved this beautiful statue .

Each detail was checked and approved from fnal customer before the shipment. The material used is white Carrara marble, that Franco Spagnoli took directly from quarry close to the workshop.

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Knoxville, Tennessee

Summary of the project

Corpus Christ with the cross

Our lady of Grace

St.Joseph with child

John Paul II portrait

Outside wall altar

Materials used White Carrara “ C “ marble Black absolute granite

Our workshop supplied all marble statuary for the Knoxville Cathedral included the outside altar for the memorial garden.

The Franco Spagnoli studio has carved starting from his houge archive of hand made drawings all statues.

Even if our studio growed up a lot during past years, we kept the traditional skills and technique of hand craft.

Saint Joseph with Child statue

Our studio was selected thanks our well known carving skills to reproduce the life size portrait of John Paul II. This statue had a particular importance because was blessed by Cardinal Dziwiski, who was the Pope secretary for 39 years. After the blessing he said : “That’s him, he is hear today with us”

Life size portrait John Paul II

Corpus Christ marble statue

Saint Francis Xavier

Saint Anthony

Sacred Heart of Jesus

Mosaics

Portfolio

Franco Spagnoli art studio has increased its services by offering mosaics that reflect the quality our clients expect. Often in architectural projects marble and mosaics are combined together either placed in altars, ambos, baptismal fonts and tabernacles. The following are examples of some of the mosaics

www.francospagnoli.it Via Carriona di Colonnata 32 54033, Carrara (MS)

P.IVA: 00259590453 info@francospagnoli.it Luca Spagnoli: +39 392 2010446

Franco Spagnoli: +39 338 1485525