Marble counters in a kitchen is a personal favourite. Many people have concerns about durability, but I love the look of marble. I'm working on a kitchen now where we'll use some marble counters and I've been looking at slabs. Ideally I'm looking for something like the kitchen above with lots of bright white and dark grey veining. There are many types of marble that have very different looks, and even within each type of marble every slab can look very different. Here are a couple I've seen, but of course I'm after the Statuario look! Carrara:
Calacatta:
Statuario:
Photo of kitchen above: Pinterest (original source unknown)