Milan’s Salone del Mobile 2018 registered an increase in attendance by 26% relative to last year
Fuorisalone (freely translated: Outdoor Fair) in the city center was overcrowded / Many venues are experiencing their demise at the hand of marketing moguls
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Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Sand is available in abundance, still it seems to be running low as we are consuming too much of it, warns the United Nations Environmental Program
Let the crystals grow: scientists of Queen Mary University in London develop a material that could regenerate dental enamel
Researchers find a new way to create mineralized materials similar to hard tissues on our teeth
Design prize awarded by the Austrian Stonemasons for innovative Interior- and Exterior Design Ideas in Natural Stone
The title itself is the prize to be won but the award winner may use it for his advertising purposes for the entire year
Poznan Stone Fair (November 14 – 17, 2018): „Arena” as a new forum for design, mosaic art, and architecture
The fair in the Polish industrial city will have a new platform for lectures to give visitors and exhibitors a value added
London Calling: visit of Euroroc-members at the invitation of Stone Federation Great Britain
Topics were: Albion’s Portland Stone quarries, London and its stone highlights, Britain’s stone industry and its market strategies
53rd Marmomac: „focus on Miami“, a network of marble ambassadors and web portals for architects and designers
Veronafiere is enhancing its role as promoter of the Made in Italy
Marsotto: marble long-case and wall clocks by ECAL students and the „Seasaw“ collection by designer Oki Sato
Marsotto LAB is the company’s latest brand name set to realize ideas all in stone
International congress and workshop on Drystone Walling on Spanish Menorca island in October 2018
Before the congress (October 26 – 28) will be started the restoration of a traditional peasants’ animal shelter (October 22 – 25)
DIVA museum tells the stories of the diamond trade in Antwerp
Shown are authentic diamond, jewelry and silver objects while stories of luxury, emotions and crime are told
Stone sculptors: copies of your work with the help of a scanner and CNC
New natural stone technologies offers new means of turning art into profit
New mineral „Riesite” discovered in the crater of the Ries of Nördlingen
It was found in melt veins of a gneiss-like rock that was exposed to extreme pressure and high temperature during the impact
After years of recession in natural stone exports, Turkey has again overcome the 2 billion US-$ hurdle
But a closer look at facts and figures shows that all is not well in the country’s stone branch
The exhibition „Beyond the Nile“ shows the cultural interchange between ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles looks through the works of art from 2000 BC to AD 300 to see how these so different cultures affected each other
„Young Creative Ideas Platform” at the Marble Trade Fair, Izmir
Ideas for household items by creative young designers from Turkey made of local natural stone are on display
New Seafloor is also created in a „cold“ way without preceding melting deep in the earth
First seismic evidence for mantle exhumation at an ultraslow-spreading center
The Natural Stone Institute’s testing lab is expanding its facilities with new staff
Dacia Woodworth shall expand the stone sector’s awareness of this service and also work for the „Use Natural Stone”
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
At Coverings 2018, fourteen beautiful doghouses tiled by TCNA (Tile Council of North America) members are on display in the TCNA Art Tile Courtyard
Interview with Beate Fischer, Nuremberg Trade Fair: „Stone+tec is the market and meeting place for Europe’s stone branch“
The show aims to propagate novel concepts for cemeteries and new fields of work for interior designers, among many other topics
