He's a regular shopper here in Carrara. These blocks go for about $300,000, and on a recent trip, he bought a robot too. Ball told us, he's come under fire for using them.

Likely to degrade more quickly than other so-called Carrara marble, the block originates from the Fantiscritti quarries in Miseglia, one of three marble districts on the slopes of Mount Maggiore, ...

The ROBOTOR company's 1L robot sculpts a block of Carrara marble into a Venus figure, at the company's facility in Carrara, Italy. CBS News ...

View A group of bullocks with their herders carrying a block of Carrara marble from the quarries of the Apuan Mountains, Tuscany, down to the town of Carrara by Antoine Joseph Bourlard on artnet.