The Swiss designer Isabell Gatzen takes echoes from the famous graphic artist M.C. Escher for some of her furniture pieces
The contrast between form and the material marble gives her works a down-to-earth flair, even if some of the pieces reflect unusual ideas
News from the Calçada Portuguesa: a book shows art with the individual stones and a film gives a bird’s eye view of the paved squares in Lisbon
The initiative from the Portuguese capital to make the cobblestones a cultural heritage of humanity has made little or no real progress
Accidental discovery: Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe can see through the clouds around Venus
During the flyby, the special camera WISPR captured the thermal image of a dark area hiding the highland Aphrodite Terra
10 international and Turkish stone sculptors may apply for the 2nd Neopolis Sculpture Symposium in Kuşadası south of Izmir, to be held in October 2021
Application deadline is July 16 / Royalty of 2400 US-$ and accommodation, food, transportation paid
Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone
British sculptor Ben Russel has adapted his art to the Corona situation and shows in his latest collection called “Terrariums“ the fungi made of stone under glass domes
The Summit Visitor Center at “America’s Mountain” Pikes Peak is expected to open in early summer
The buildings with a spectacular view at 14,115 feet mimic the pink granite that formed the National Historic Landmark in the Rocky Mountains
The Turkish natural stone associations have been doing everything right in their design competitions lately
The right thing done by IMIB in 2020 was not to award a prize in the category of professional designers, but only honorable mentions
At the 2021 Xiamen Stone Fair, the “Habitat Design & Life Festival“ will be held for the first time
The event will present examples how to make stone an element of modern lifestyle
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