Marriot Manchester

The project

London DBS Natural Stone supplied and installed natural stone throughout the Marriot Manchester hotel, delivering a consistent finish across the guest-facing areas of the building.

The effort behind it

Slabs were selected and dry-laid before cutting so the veining reads continuously across each elevation, then templated, fabricated and installed by the DBS stone team on a phased hotel programme.

Challenges faced

Access, atmosphere and expectation were the three real challenges at Marriot Manchester. Manchester gave us restricted working hours and no room for error on delivery day, while the client's brief called for hotel stone supply and installation finished to a standard most workshops would not accept as a final. Two full-size mock-ups were built and rejected before the approved version ever reached production.

Team & involvement

A dedicated team carried the project from first survey to final sign-off: a lead designer working directly with the client, bench joiners who made every component by hand in our London workshop, and fitters who treated the finished rooms in Manchester as if they were their own. The same hands that cut the timber installed it — no handovers, no lost detail, one point of responsibility throughout.

A successful outcome

The finished work was signed off in a single visit, with no snagging list — the outcome we aim for on every commission. The client has since referred two further projects in Manchester to the workshop, and the Marriot Manchester pieces remain in daily use exactly as installed: drawers that still close silently, doors still true, and timber that has mellowed rather than worn.