Marble Case Pro · Verde Alpi
Deep green Verde Alpi from the Aosta Valley with light veining, set in a Pro case with aluminium buttons and a raised lens ring – for iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max.
Estimated arrival
Standard shipping €5,90
3–4 business days
Express shipping €14,90
2 business days
Ordered by 13:00 German time: ships the next business day
A piece of ocean floor from the Alps – the same stone clads columns at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Verde Alpi is a deep green stone from the Aosta Valley, run through with light, almost white veins. Geologically it is a serpentinite – rock from the Earth’s mantle, pushed up as the Alps were folded – and it is traded as marble. It sits polished on the back of the Pro case. Everything around it is built for daily life: the lens ring and buttons are CNC-milled aluminium. The lens ring stands slightly proud, so your iPhone never rests on its camera. The metal buttons press easily and can be swapped, and the Camera Control sits protected under TPU in the frame colour.
Every piece is one of a kind. The photos show an example – the veining on your veneer will run differently.
At a glance
Every order is made individually for you and shipped worldwide from Germany. Everything about withdrawal is in our withdrawal policy.
For the USA and the United Kingdom, duties and import taxes are already included at checkout – there is nothing more to pay on delivery. For other countries outside the EU, import duties and taxes may apply and are not included in the price. Custom Tailoring pieces are made to your specifications and are therefore excluded from the right of withdrawal.
The same commitment to real natural stone. The difference is in the case, the details and the added protection.
Mix & Match
Aluminium buttons and a lens ring in your favourite colour: matching or contrasting. Buy them separately, swap them out and give your Pro Case a new look.
The story behind Verde Alpi
An Alpine valley at blue hour
I
Around 160 million years ago, in the Jurassic, an ocean lay between Europe and Africa. On its floor, rock from the Earth’s mantle came to the surface. Seawater seeped in and turned it into serpentinite. When Africa pushed north, the ocean closed and its floor was folded into the Alps. Verde Alpi is a piece of it.
II
The green comes from serpentine minerals and chlorite, the deep dark from fine magnetite. The pale veins are calcite: water ran through the finest cracks and left white behind in the green. Geologists call this rock ophicalcite. The trade calls it marble, even though strictly speaking it isn’t.
III
The stone is quarried in the middle and lower Aosta Valley, on the slopes of Issogne, Saint-Denis and Verrayes and in the Gressoney valley. Each variety carries the name of its place: Verde Aver after the Becca d’Aver, Verde Saint-Denis, Verde Issogne. “Verde Alpi”, the green of the Alps, is the name for all of them.
IV
For a long time the green lay almost untouched inside the mountain. In 1922 Andrea Mascardi discovered the stone in the Aosta Valley, yet until the 1930s little was quarried. The great boom came after the Second World War, the peak in the 1960s.
V
In Milan in the mid-1930s, Piero Portaluppi set green Alpine stones such as Verde Issorie into the Casa Corbellini-Wassermann. In New York, the columns in the lobby of the UN Secretariat are clad in green Italian marble, Verde Alpi according to the stone trade. Today the stone travels from the Aosta Valley as far as Japan and the Emirates.
VI
Our Verde Alpi arrives as a large raw slab from Antolini in Verona. Every slab shows a different piece of ocean floor: here a dense web of veins, there calm, almost black fields. From it we split veneers just a few tenths of a millimetre thin.
VII
Polished, Verde Alpi looks like mossy rock after rain. Because the veins never run the same way, no veneer matches another. That is why you choose yours yourself, piece by piece, by photo.
Verde Alpi
What was once ocean floor became mountain, then slab, then veneer. Set into the Pro case with aluminium buttons and a raised lens ring, you carry it with you every day. Your piece exists exactly once.
Images: AI-generated illustrations by ROXXLYN, not photographs of the places and buildings mentioned.
Material
Millions of years in the mountain. 12 years of experience. 0.9 millimetres.
Made in Germany
