Carrara is known around the world as the primary center of excavation, processing and trade of marble. It has always been a favorite destination for intellectuals, poets, writers and art critics. Place able to reveal the secrets and mysteries of a noble material and elegant, very solid, but also very fragile. Statuary, veined, white absolute, cremo, bardiglio and many more are the colors and the nuances of this rock seductive. The marble quarries were probably already exploited in the Copper from the primitive inhabitants of the area to produce various utensils and decorative and commemorative, but it is under the rule of Rome, which was enhanced mining to supply blocks of the white marble the most important public buildings in Rome and several patrician houses. And 'in fact at this time that dates the birth of many countries close to the marble quarries. After a period of slower, because of the barbarian invasions, with the most intense propagation of Christianity, the marble was used in large quantities for the building and furnishing of religious buildings. During the Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti, in his frequent trips Apuana earth, he went in person to select blocks of white marble more suitable for the realization of his many masterpieces. In 1700 there were about four hundred quarries from which the marble was mined to decorate the residences of enlightened rulers who sought, in that material, the features that expressed the sense of monumentality and potenza.Durante fascism became very use of Carrara marble and, despite a decrease in the foreign market, it went from about sixty workshops with approximately nine hundred employees with one hundred ten thousand eight hundred employees. In the postwar years, Carrara through a difficult period. The precious rock becomes out of date and sculptors are focused on new materials such as iron, steel and plastics. During this time we pass by laboratories having different specializations to a new figure of crafts complete, able to combine all the technical capabilities. And 'structured in laboratories so that, in subsequent years, that transformation takes place in the production that can give new life to the local tradition. The marble starts to be used on design. It begins with a mass production of small objects and then move to more complex productions such as the production of furniture, tables and furnishing accessories. They take the form of everyday objects designed for a domestic dimension. So they begin experiments on the color combining polychrome marble, creating and rediscovering modules and inlays, is seeking new treatments surfaces to achieve amazing mirrors the effects of polishing. Until you get to today where, thanks to new technologies, the skill of the artisans and the creativity of designers bravest, the marble breaks into the world of fashion, starting from pendants, bracelets, earrings to get to the decorations of the bags and eyeglass frames Sunglasses.