Lobby and vanity stone takes a different kind of beating than a dining room or spa. Luggage cart wheels and hard-soled shoes grind grit into polished floors at the entrance. Front desk counters absorb spilled coffee, hand sanitizer, and pen ink from check-in transactions dozens of times a day. Bathroom vanities face acidic cleaning sprays and bleach-based disinfectants applied multiple times per shift by housekeeping staff working on a schedule, not a stone-care schedule. Natural stone is porous, and each of these exposures opens the door to etching, staining, and surface breakdown that no amount of polishing fully reverses.
Most properties respond with wax coatings or topical sealers, which wear down under exactly this kind of traffic and need reapplication every few months, often requiring roped-off sections of a lobby that never look fully finished. RAKU works differently. It's a nanocoating, not a topical layer, so it bonds permanently at the molecular level rather than sitting on top of the stone waiting to wear off. Applied by a certified Marble Armour applicator, it goes on in a single day with zero operational downtime. No closed lobby, no rerouted guests, no roped-off front desk. It's food-contact safe, heat resistant to 1,900°F, and backed by a 10-year commercial warranty, so it holds up to housekeeping's chemical rotation and years of luggage traffic without breaking down or needing to be redone.
RAKU by Lantania already protects stone in Michelin-starred restaurants, five-star hotels, and luxury spas across Europe, and Marble Armour's certified applicator network now brings it to hospitality properties across North America. Bellagio, Wynn, MGM Grand, and St. Regis have already put it to work protecting their most visible stone surfaces.
Your lobby stone is the first impression every guest forms before they reach the front desk. Request a consultation with Marble Armour to get a certified RAKU applicator on-site, assess your marble, onyx, quartzite, travertine, or limestone, and schedule a single-day install that protects it for the next decade.