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108 SPRING 2018 L OTS OF KIDS HAVE ROCK COLLECTIONS GROWING up, but Carlotta Cubi's fascination with stone was a little different. As executive vice president of Cu- mar Inc., one of the nation's preeminent natural stone suppliers and fabricators, Carlotta represents the eighth generation in her family to work with stone, a craft that her father, Angelo "Ivo" Cubi, brought with him from their native Verona, Italy. "That's our hometown. My dad began his career there," Carlotta says. There, the natural stone industry is hundreds, if not thousands, of years old, and Ivo grew up working and learning alongside his father and grandfather, in a shop across the street from where he grew up carrying on a shop nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Cumar's 50,000- square-foot inventory space holds roughly 7,000 slabs of beautiful natural stone in stock in about 800 different colors. long family tradition filled with passion and expertise. By contrast, the natural stone industry in the United States was relatively new, and in the 1980s, Ivo was asked to lend his expertise to companies on this side of the At- lantic. He quickly saw a gap in the United States market. "There is so much saturation in Italy for this indus- try, and here there wasn't," Carlotta says. Ivo founded Cumar in 1992, and the Everett-based company has only grown in size and reputation since. Today, Cumar is a full-service stone supplier, installer, and fabricator. Carlotta says that typically in this area, stone distributors stock slabs but leave clients to find their own fabricator. Cumar has a 25,000-square-foot fabrication facil- ity and expert craftspeople, designers, and installers. Plus, Cumar's 50,000-square-foot inventory space holds roughly 7,000 slabs of beautiful natural stone in about 800 different colors. "It's really known for being one of the most exclusive inventories. The collection is very broad, and unique, and high-end," Carlotta says. Cumar's deep, multigenerational expertise is just one of the reasons that its inventory is so staggeringly good. It also has strong ties to suppliers in Europe and beyond. "The relationships Cumar has with the suppliers