The hottest trend in bathroom design today is the handmade countertop sink – known as a vessel sink, which has become the latest must-have for homeowners. These stunning pieces of stone art will add pop to any bathroom, and are equally beautiful in traditional or contemporary settings.

Onyx is a translucent stone with pleasing and highly varied colors and markings. Onyx is composed of calcium like marble, but it is much younger, sometimes by a couple of million years or even a few thousand centuries. Because of its beauty, onyx stands somewhere on the scale between the semi-precious gemstones and the merely ornamental opaque rock such as marble and granite. Onyx is often more handsome than some of the gemstones which are more highly ranked. Certainly each piece of onyx is wholly individual and unique, never a clone, and has its own particular appeal and attraction. It is a prize of Nature. And lastly, the richness of onyx, with its soft light-absorption and light outgiving, justifies its name as "princess of marbles".