Make sure it's quartz and not marble aggregate please.

I love the edge detail. But I'd be scared of it chipping/cracking easily. Joseph, what level of paranoia would be appropriate for an edge as shown in that picture?

Joseph I will make sure thanks.
Not that edge, it’s weird, that’s one of the only pictures I can find online of this stone.

This is what it said on the website "SMQuartz is composed of 90-93% natural quartz mineral blended with advanced polymer resins and pigments." Isn't cambria (and other brands) the same?

Would love for someone who has it in their kitchen to chime in.

This is what I just got back from them. “The 7% is resin.. to give it colour and veining. The resin used is safe for food etc, as all our products are registered with NSF which is an international certification regarding food safety”

@Santamargherita USA

I would also like for someone who has it in their kitchen to chime in. I'm getting ready to order

Santamargherita, victoria

@C P I hope someone does! My fabricator had nothing but great things to say about the stone and company.

Did The Cook's Kitchen delete her responses???

Please note that your fabricator is trying to mislead you, when they say there only are 7% of resin in that product. That's not what most people would think, when they look at the materials that go in there.

Instead, you'd see two buckets of stone dust, and one bucket of resin. By volume, about a third of the "stone" is actually resin. But since resin is so much less dense, fabricators like to quote the ratio by weight. And that's how you get to numbers such as 7%. They are not technically wrong; but I feel it is intentionally try to confuse.

And no, nothing wrong with a product that is resin and stone. Just be aware of the pros and cons that this entails. The biggest con is probably that this material isn't guaranteed to be heat proof. You can't set hot pots directly on there, and you can't mount it as a backsplash behind a stove unless you can somehow ensure that that area doesn't get too hot. Depending on model of your stove, an appropriately sized backguard might be available.

M.. I understand the volume, I've read that before. This is our 3rd time using quartz, but first with SM. This is the first I've ever heard that quartz could possibly have marble added to it. We have a slide in range and no quartz for backsplash.

Excellent. Great that you are well informed on all of these questions. Quartz is a nice product. I didn't know either that there are some versions that have marble mixed into it. But I am not surprised. The general principle can be applied to all sorts of combinations of materials.

This is so refreshing compared to all the other postings that regularly find their way into the Houzz forum. All too often, the sales person has misrepresented things and then the home owner is disappointed about the performance of what they got. In the worst cases, the home owner though they got natural stone and then they find out, that clearly this product handles differently.

We have Santamargherita Lyskamm countertops in our vacation house kitchen. No problems, very happy with it.

Thanks M!

@flopsycat1 nice!!! Thanks for the picture!

isourcasa did you install SM? would love to see pictures

I have had Santa Margherita Virginia in my kitchen for 5 years now and still love it! At the time of purchase I liked that it was made in Italy and I wanted the creamy / beiges with less grey than the other current colors at the time. So happy I stayed with the beiges since they are coming back big! As far as performance, 6 months after install the piece on my island made a loud pop and cracked from the corner cutout for the cooktop toward the edge. My awesome fabricator replaced it right away and said there can be random pieces of quartz that have unseeable flaws that will make it happen. After that I have had no problems. I use a trivet if I set something unusually hot on it (like a baking steel pizza @ 500 degrees). But no problems for something like a sheet of cookies. Easy clean and no staining from red wine, tomato sauce etc. I would definitely buy again and recommend to friends.

Can't recall the discontinued color but still like our SM after 5 years. It's the only quartz we've ever had so couldn't compare others to it for function. We don't put hot pots on it but we don't baby it. Maybe the brand isn't as popular as others but we didn't hear anything bad about it when we were shopping.