Walk-In Shower with Calacatta Slab Walls in Lafayette Square

This walk-in shower in a Lafayette Square home used large-format Calacatta gold porcelain panels on three walls, with a book-matched layout on the back wall to create a mirrored veining effect. The floor is a white hexagon mosaic with a grey grout that reads as a visual anchor against the pale walls.

The book-matched back wall required careful pre-planning — we numbered the panels before setting to ensure the veining pattern aligned correctly across the joints. Panels this large (approximately 48x96 inches) require a perfectly flat substrate and back-buttering to achieve the coverage needed for a wet area. The shower was in a 1920s Lafayette Square Tudor Revival home where the original bathroom had been a small, low-ceilinged space; the new layout opened the footprint significantly.