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»
- A reception counter like a massive stone block that can be extended to form a long table
- French company Ateliers Zelij launches a new collection with stone and terrazzo
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»
Markets: Selling Stone
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
Shortfall in new homes is keeping the pressure on house prices and rents
„2019 State of the Nation’s Housing Report“ by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies
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