New in our Stone Finder: RED GRIOTTE and RED ROYAL marbles from Belgium, with a high decorative effect, once worldwide used and nowadays still extracted at one quarry in Wallonia by Merbres-Sprimont company

Art history worldwide: the labyrinth as a predetermined path to a destination with numerous twists and turns, and the maze as a deliberate misdirection

Stone slabs or pavement, respectively green hedges or grass are the preferred materials

The Xiamen Stone Fair recorded more than 1000 exhibitors at its 2022 edition

The new focal points introduced in the middle of the pandemic, such as the “Habitat Design & Life Festival,“ are established in the profile of the show

Italy’s natural stone sector has also coped well with the Covid-19 pandemic

The companies there and around the world were able to adapt spontaneously to the fact that natural stone is regarded by the public as a crisis-proof value investment

New in our Stone Finder: BELGIAN BLACK MARBLE OF GOL ZINNE with a velvet appearance in perfect color uniformity, from an underground quarry in Wallonia, extracted by Merbres-Sprimont company

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The Austrian railroad company ÖBB uses the natural stone Dorfergrün from the nearby surroundings as a defining material in its new mobility center in the tourist town of Lienz

It’s actually microbes that move mountains

Chinese scientists outline how humanity cann harness the interaction between minerals and microbes

The new collection “Orbit“ by Alex Mint: the focus of the design is concentric circles and probably also water waves

The Greek designer has given the tables and the console fluidity and movement