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The “Flow” washbasin by designer Paolo Ulian for antoniolupi company was included in the ADI INDEX 2024, which rewards the best of Italian industry design. The object is “not just a washbasin but a unique sculpture, capable of transforming a ‘defect‘ into an essential decoration,“ the press release says.
At WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon, stonemasonry only took part under the special status as “Exhibition Skills,” because, in previous years, not enough countries had sent participating teams. The winners now were Michael Rebelo pereira (gold medal, France), Felix Kuster (silver, Switzerland), and Michael Neumann (bronze, Germany). In the Exhibition Skills, professions may present themselves if they have contest innovations. From France comes an initiative to integrate design content into the stonemasonry competition.
Abstract submission for the Global Stone Congress to be held June 16 – 20, 2025 in Drama, Greece, is open until December 31, 2024.
Draenert, premium furniture manufacturer from Lake Constance, was honored with the German Design Award 2025 in the category “Excellent Product Design – Furniture” for its KENT table.
The Smithsonian Magazine reports how a carbon fiber pole helped to restore the famous “Apollo Belvedere” marble statue in the Vatican.
Have we recovered all the major Maya cities? Not even close, a new research from Tulane University suggests using laser-guided imaging to peer through dense jungle forests.
“Robots can sculpt marble, but some disagree if they‘re making art,“ is the title of a report from Carrara by CBS news.
The Gallerie d‘Italia in Vicenza is hosting the first exhibition dedicated to Francesco Bertos, one of the most singular and celebrated sculptors of the Serenissima in the early 18th century, until February 09, 2025. Bertos distinguished himself for his original marble and bronze groups, characterised by complex compositions, rich in figures and details, with mythological or allegorical subjects as bizarre as they are fascinating.
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano in January 2022 released massive quantities of volcanic material into the ocean and atmosphere. This nutrient input could have a lasting effect on marine life and could increase the ocean’s capacity to sequester CO₂, researchers of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel say.
Video of the month: Antonio Canova‘s sculpture “Mars and Venus“ at Marble Hall at Buckingham Palace made of one block of Carrara marble (1815): An allegory of the peace in Europe after the Napoleonic wars showing the goddess of love taming the angry god of war. Complicated background in antiquity: Venus was married to Vulcan, but Mars was her true love.
(15.11.2024, USA: 11.15.2024)