Architecture news / Archive»
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
- Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
Design news / Archive»
- French company Ateliers Zelij launches a new collection with stone and terrazzo
- Riluc is a Portuguese manufacturer of design furniture, sometimes using natural stone
Markets: Selling Stone»
- The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
- Peter’s Corner: Italy’s natural stone exports declined by (-)5.3% in 2019 after value for the 4th year in succession and that is also the repercussion of persistent marketing failures
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
- September topic of the Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s Product Focus: “Quarry Planet, Journey around the NEW Quarries”
Stone Stories»
- Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
- The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Art news / Archive»
- “Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
- Central Park has its first monument depicting “real” women (and persons of color) to commemorate the ratification-centennial of the Amendment, which gave women the right to vote
Briefly noted»
Briefly noted
Miscellaneous
On April 15, 2020, the fire disaster almost destroyed Notre-Dame in Paris. In a detailed article, Science magazine has gathered expert information on the cathedral’s limestone
New COVID-19 webpage by the Natural Stone Institute with useful information also for non-American (stone) companies
Topics reach from checklists for worker protection, quarantine behavior to cyber criminals seeking to capitalize on the epidemic
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
A diadem made with the gemstone aquamarine and diamonds is now part of the Dorothy and Artie McFerrin Gallery in The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS). The collection already boasts two other Fabergé tiaras
Deep sea sediments are full of unicellular organisms that utilize the „rain” of nutrients from above
In a thimble full of sea floor mud there are about 120 million cells of Woeseiales bacteria
Germany has a „Rock of the Year“ and with some success
The aim is to make citizens aware of the importance of geology and these natural resources
The shape of mountain and valley is developed in a complex interplay of climate and vegetation
A research team from the University of Tübingen examined the role of vegetation, precipitation and soil erosion
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