Suspended lamp „Wandering Star“ with semispherical marble shade
Filipe Lisboa of Viso Company, Canada, received the Red-Dot-Award for product design 2018 for his lamps
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Connecting the deserts in the American West to space, time and light: „Roden Crater“, „City“ and „Star Axis“
Artists are realizing life-time projects to let guests make new experiences, one day
2018 was a year of decline in Turkish exports of natural stone by (-)6.8%
With respect to exports of raw blocks to China, Turkey faced a major crash (-)18%
We have the proof: the Easter bunny really exists – in marble
The Consorzio Marmisti Valpenta form Northern Italy has sent us pictures of three of the seasonal animals
Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age
An international team of scientists collected human remains of 24 individuals from sites in Ireland, Scotland and the Baltic island of Gotland, Sweden
The French sculptor Elsa creates a „Tree of Rest“ made of slate for the forest cemetery in Kehlen, Luxembourg
Natural stone from Herbeumont in nearby Belgium is used
Brazil’s furniture industry discovers natural stone
The FIMMA Trade Fair embraced an initiative for household furniture implementing marble, granite etc for the first time
The limestone-walls of the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris seem to have withstood the flame inferno
They are built of Pierre Lutétien which has been part of the city’s history since Roman times
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Kofferanhänger aus Marmor sind das neueste Produkt der Firma Mikol Marmi
Iberian limestone for Australian sculptors’ works at the hotel The Westin Perth
Bateig Company of Alicante transferred the image of original paintings unto natural stone slabs with CNC-precision machinery
A new theory offers an explanation why the Earth’s mantle was cool enough to produce diamonds billions of years ago
Although the whole globe was hotter as that time, the upper mantle was not
Brazil’s natural Stone exports for 2018 down by (-)10.35% relative to 2017
In South America, too, engineered stone is playing an increasingly important role
New questions: which role do the very deep ocean waters play in climate change?
Whereas most of the Pacific is responding to modern warming, the ocean under 2000 m depth may be cooling due to waters from the Little Ice Age
Grande Pinnacle Award: fantastic convolution of a thin marble strip
The Natural Stone Institute once again bestowed its yearly award for outstanding works in natural stone
„Perfect Poses?“: how the body language of sculptures emphasizes the feelings and narratives the artist tells
Exhibition in the Glyptotek in Cogenhagen until July 16, 2019
At the Xiamen Stone Fair, parts of the stone branch proved that communication with the consumer is an uncharted land
Point of focus at a press conference was the purportedly uncontrolled release of radon and radioactivity from marble
Geologists discover the biggest and oldest strewn field of craters on Earth in the Rocky Mountains
Fields of caters are remnants of pieces of small iron asteroids which broke apart in the Earth’s atmosphere / Impact 280 million years ago
What, exactly, does added value in stone design hope to achieve?
The Vitória Stone Fair included a presentation, which left us at a loss for words
Interior decoration: limestone used as cladding for a fireplace
At the FuoriSalone in Milan, Grassi Pietre presents its Pietra di Vicenza in the Casa Presotto flagship store
The stonemasonry school of Brač in the Croatian Adria celebrates its 110th anniversary this year
A congress discusses current questions in the natural stone branch and hopes to increase attractiveness of the profession
