Architecture news / Archive»
- Call for the creation of a dry stone landscape work in the territory of the Gorges du Gardon Biosphere Reserve in Southern France
- Designer Raffaello Galiotto and the Margraf company give a marble facade the appearance of a curtain
Design news / Archive»
- Pure Talents Contest at imm Cologne 2021: chances for young talents working in the field of furniture to show their ideas to the world
- New from Promemoria: lamps by designer Romeo Sozzi from 2013
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Covid-19: SapienStone sees changes in living and praises its porcelain stoneware (with natural stone appearance) for it
- Peter’s Corner: the new start after Covid-19, which Marmomac wants to give companies with its “Re-Start” Project, could be more than just back to business as usual
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- New dates announced for next Stone+tec in Nuremberg, Germany: 2021, May 12 – 15
- Next Cersaie will take place in 2021 from September 27 to October 01
Stone Stories»
- After the assassination of Caesar, a volcanic eruption in Alaska caused a worldwide weather anomaly which contributed to the end of the Roman Republic
- Archaeologists discover a massive circle of prehistoric shafts near Stonehenge
Art news / Archive»
- Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut: call for art-projects which lead to sustainability and better societies
- The Atlantic magazine interviewed 3 artists in the USA about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on their work: “That is what we train for,” says one
Briefly noted»
Markets: Selling Stone
Nearly one in a thousand Swiss citizens visited quarries and workshops at this year’s Quarry Day in September 2019
PR was a mix of events and activities / more target groups envisaged for the future
Peter’s Corner: why, as far as marketing is concerned, nearly the entire marble and granite branch is barking up the wrong tree?
Instead of addressing the middle class many natural stone Organizations are propagating opulent art
For the first time in six years Brazil experienced from January until March 2019 a growth in natural stone exports
Donald Trump’s anti-dumping measures directed against China may have had a reflected indirectly here
Africa: Mauritius, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, Botswana, and Kenia have experienced very positive development
The economic analysts at New World Wealth determine and analyze world wealth and a ranking of major cities
Belgium boasts a quality charter for tombstones since March 2019
Members of the Natural Stone Group within the Trade Organization of Builders has pledged to take quick action in case of damage
The natural stone branch has undergone groundbreaking modernizations between 2009 and 2019
In view of the predicted cooling down of the global economy, Stone-Ideas.com took a look back to the development over the last decade
Blockchain ante portas: new transparency for the natural stone market
A digital system can reveal complete traceability of the origin and production-site of every stone product
Global Countertop Market: „Engineered quartz is forecasted to increase its share, partly at the expense of granite“
Freedonia Research Group has published a new study which sees the demand to reach 540 million m² in 2023
Nature in the quarry: the Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Budo budo) feel undisturbed by all the noise of heavy machinery in the quarry
Oetelshofen Limestone Quarry, Germany, regards the endangered giant owl, which chose the quarry as its home, as „a popular figure“
Architects pinpoint the weak spots of natural stone: price and ease of cleaning
German Natural Stone Association DNV conducted a market analysis of marble, granite, and other popular types of stone
