36 Marvellous Marble Kitchens That Spell Luxury

Many kitchens offer white, wood, and chrome features. What many don’t boast is a touch of marble. Indicative of the luxurious and uber-sophisticated, marble is a textile most kitchens only dream of. Whether black-speckled or white-streaked, each marble panel is different and bespoke, with no marbled effect appearing the same. Not just for splashbacks and benches, watch as marble adorns chairs, flooring, and even a touch of the ornamental. These thirty-six kitchens show a myriad of ways in which marble can add class and sophistication to a kitchen, creating a truly luxurious cooking and tasting space.

1 | Visualizer: M3 Architecture

This white kitchen breaks it up, with white marble streaking grey against a minimal backdrop. Taupe cabinetry and wood-and-charcoal chairs help mix the palette, while white decorations float to the ceiling.

2 | Designer: Arent & Pyke

Made bolder by rose gold and varnished wood, grey-and-white marble swathes itself over this contemporary space. Black stencil kitchen bar stools and a bonzai tree add focus.

3 | Visualizer: Stanislav Borozdinskiy

Embrace your artistic side with block-shaped marble. Grey-threaded marble reflects in a splashback, while an extractor fan and papier mache lighting join the party.

4 | Visualizer: Monika Siwińska

Go monochromatic with white marble, broken by black. This all-white kitchen features two walls in the texture. A three-pronged light and quilted black couch draw the eye.

5 | Visualizer: Daniel Nagaets

Evoke the mood of the boudoir in a space for eating. This lightly-veined marble wall and bench are backgrounded by plains of white cabinetry. Black chairs stencilled in white sit lit by a jellyfish chandelier.

6 | Visualizer: Sergey Galochkin

This modern kitchen incorporates many elements. A marble splashback is joined by taupe and white cabinetry, an LED chandelier and clear acrylic dining chairs.

7 | Visualizer: Stanislav Lukianchuk

There’s nothing like marble to introduce the classic kitchen. French panelling in black and white joins marble in grey and white, creating a modern twist on your mother’s childhood space. Black stencil drop lighting makes it modern. If a similar black and white theme is what you prefer, do check out our feature on black and white kitchens which will surely give you some great inspiration.

8 | Visualizer: Ngurah Arya

Minimalist with a touch of interest, this marble splashback does the work for a kitchen clad in white panelling.

9 | Visualizer: Elena Ovcharenko

The Scandinavian works well with marble, too. White walls and wooden floors match with a lightly-marbled splashback, bench and table for an understated effect. Stencil wooden features add elegance.

10 | Visualizer: TOL'KO interiors

A darker, film noir kitchen can also house marble. A block marble bench sits before textured grey walls and charcoal cabinetry, lit by oval hanging lights. Green velvet chairs mark the foreground.

11 | Visualizer: Jakub Komrska

Marble is the perfect partner for clean lines. This block bench and mini splashback act in harmony with a low-hanging extractor fan, flat black utilities and mid-wooden cabinetry.

12 | Designer: Elizabeth Hattersley Design

A fusion of styles also houses marble. Another marble block bench meets monochrome cabinetry – with a few wooden accents.

13 | Designer: Palmerston Design Consultants

Floored and backed in marble, this monochromatic masterpiece features a bench in Snow White Quartz. Two different marbles join in a porcelain marble floor and authentic Statuario splashback.

14 | Visualizer: Elena Ovcharenko

Light-gold in hue, this dark and dangerous kitchen is where storms are brewed. Clad in top-to-toe marble, a constellation chandelier lights the space.

15 | Designer: Minosa Design

Marble doesn’t have to be the feature. This kitchen, striking in varnished wood-panelling, adds a lightly-stroked marble façade as a finishing touch.

16 | Architect: Chamberlain Javens Architects

Black blocks feature in a range of materials in this black kitchen. With a block bench streaked in pencil-thin white, who wouldn’t want to come to dinner?

17 | Visualizer: Tomek Michalski

This marble kitchen goes a shade darker, in top-to-toe dark hues. A concrete floor and upper encase a textured wallpaper and stunning marble slab, the multi-coloured masterpiece of the room.

18 | Designer: De Rosee Sa

Create your own eatery in shades of beige, grey and marble. An oblong marble table with low-lying splashback creates a subdued, sophisticated space. Two hanging glass lights dim the area.

19 | Source: Tyler Mandic

Get on trend with grey-and-white marble for your benchtop and floor. Framed by unique black stencil lighting, white cabinetry backs a stylish place for cooking.

20 | Visualizer: Révélateur Studio

This all-white kitchen is grounded in marble, a floor easy-to-clean and hiding marks. Taupe-grey chairs introduce white-lacquered cabinetry beside a vase of tulips.

21 | Visualizer: Raya Todorova

Grey marble need not look cold. This charcoal and marble façade accented by light wood, rose gold and pops of red is a sure way to get the tastebuds going.

22 | Designer: Talcik & Demovicova

Blend the classic and modern with this marble-benched space. A Florentine plaster ceiling frames dark wooden cabinetry, black-and-gold stools and a sprig of white florals. An alternating floor retains interest.

23 | Designer: Fiona Lynch

Monochrome speaks again in this modern kitchen. Grey marble elements meet stark black features and wooden stools, yielding maximum impact.

24 | Architect: ExtraArchitecture

Grey is the colour of the moment. Marble shows its depth, in a framed bench and splashback mottled in a range of grey hues. Light wood and glass give it space.

25 | Designer: GABBE

Resplendent in panelling, this kitchen uses marble as a design feature. Strips of varnished wood in a ceiling and under-bench meet mottled marble in a wrap bench and splashback. White cabinetry provides a canvas.

26 | Designer: Studio Melesi

Another panelled gem, this kitchen’s unusual shape is best set in marble. A long, varnished corridor results in marble in streaked grey, framing two thirds of a wall and two squared-off kitchen spaces. A stove’s cubby hole get a second look in.

27 | Designer: LSA

Trying to find your kitchen’s X Factor? This kitchen knows it’s marble, grounded by sleek wooden floors and simple white cabinetry.

28 | Designer: LSA

Colour-contrast kitchens allow white marble to shine. Set on a polished wooden floor, lightly-streaked marble adorns a central table and kitchen bench. Black lamps hover over for emphasis.

29 | Designer: Tyler Mandic

Marble can also work well with colour. A surprising pair, a muted marble benchtop and floor compare and contrast with a six-piece oceanic scene.

30 | Visualizer: Alexander Zenzura

The marbled effect can stretch and elongate a space. This smaller-sized room uses marble as a feature and means of keeping the room light and bright.

31 | Visualizer: Marina Tsishyna & Nastya Ivanchuk

Light can change the effect of marble. This white and taupe kitchen shines a glow on inlet marble, making it warm. A marbled section above turns grey, while a paler shade covers the bench.

32 | Designer: Woods Bagot

Go minimalist with marble, white and chrome. This kitchen manages it admirably, as it bends and curves into simple geometric shapes. A couple of indoor herb planters add in some greenery to this kitchen.

33 | Designer: Katty Schiebeck

A kitchen doesn’t have to be conventional. This artistic space is anything but, with two director’s wooden chairs greeting a one-legged marble bench. 70’s wooden panelling frames an artful feature in the same material, while an oven hides underneath.

34 | Designer: Katty Schiebeck

Art deco and the Scandinavian collide in a light, artistic kitchen. Light wooden cabinetry and a zigazag floor hold an unusual marble frame, secured by one square and a golden tap. A matching splashback hides behind a triangular chandelier.

35 | Designer: Metaform Architects

More art gallery than kitchen, this marble slab is envy-worthy. Simple white cabinetry with LED lighting adds pizzazz to the space.

36 | Designer: Barlow & Barlow Design

The ornate meets diner in a marble bench finish. Black and gold cabinetry and black and white checkers ground a white-plastered, cacti-lined space.

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