{"id":2552,"date":"2012-03-04T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2012-03-02T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T19:40:08","slug":"lapicidas-new-antique-english-stone-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/tiles-flooring\/limestone-flooring\/lapicidas-new-antique-english-stone-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapicida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Antique English Stone Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2553\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/antique-english-collection.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2553\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2553\" title=\"Lapicida's Antique English Stone Collection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/antique-english-collection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapicida&#39;s Antique English Stone Collection<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lapicida is famous for their antique floors and their new \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAntique English\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 collection presents the most interesting of the UK&#8217;s traditional national stones.<\/p>\n<p>Lapicida also supplies stone internationally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many of the stones are extremely rare, such as the 19th Century Limestone floor recovered from the Bishop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Palace in Ripon;<\/strong> as seen in our picture, it is composed of square tiles and has an unusual ecclesiastical design also found in Durham Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Yorkstone and Purbeck to Blue Lias,<\/strong> Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wonderful native stones have been used in historic buildings for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Reclaimed and restored, they have a lustrous patina, resulting from the passage of time making them amongst the most sought-after for flooring projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lapicida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s services expand far beyond supplying the stone:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s custom-cut service, converts random flagstones into regularly sized pieces without affecting their beauty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reclaimed stone comes in uneven sizes and thicknesses that are not best suited for modern homes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If required, stone can be hand-selected to achieve a precise range of colour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another element of Lapicida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bespoke service, combines different native stones into exceedingly decorative patterned floors as required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prices for Lapicida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAntique English\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Collection start from \u00c2\u00a3180 (inc. VAT) per square metre.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit the website to view <a title=\"Lapicida Stone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lapicida.com\/gallery-natural-stone-tile-floors.aspx\">Lapicida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spectacular gallery of competed natural stone installations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new London showroom opens on Kings Road in Spring 2012.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.lapicida.com<\/p>\n<p>Tel:\u00c2\u00a0 (01423) 400 500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lapicida is famous for their antique floors and their new \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAntique English\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 collection presents the most interesting of the UK&#8217;s traditional national stones. Lapicida also supplies stone internationally. Many of the stones are extremely rare, such as the 19th Century Limestone floor recovered from the Bishop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Palace in Ripon; as seen in our picture, it is composed of square tiles and has an unusual ecclesiastical design also found in Durham Cathedral. From Yorkstone and Purbeck to Blue Lias, Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wonderful native stones have been used in historic buildings for centuries. Reclaimed and restored, they have a lustrous patina, resulting from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/tiles-flooring\/limestone-flooring\/lapicidas-new-antique-english-stone-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[253,172,173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}