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»
Markets: Selling Stone
Stonethica takes old ideas for use of marble remnants one step further
Laminated slabs can be used by architects in construction projects to obtain optimal sustainability results
Japanese Nikkei Asian Review: deliveries to the US relabeled in Vietnam
US-President Donald Trump’s tariffs cause complex chain reactions in the world economy and are not his „easy to win trade war“
Project „Life in Quarries“: give endangered species living space in active quarries
Providing living space for flora and fauna next to active quarry areas can be achieved with little or no effort
„One Million Grams of Granite“: Austrian stonemasons busy themselves with artistic inspiration for one ton of local stone
The finished works are on display at Upper Austria’s Landscape and Gardening Show
GfK market analysis: EU newcomers have significant increases in per capita purchasing power
But the distance to the average of the countries in the West is still big
Peter’s Corner: why is there no innovation in the natural stone awards?
Only one worldwide distinction exists for innovation in building and design with natural stone
„Despite a decline of our block-exports to China, Trump’s tariffs can be favorable for Turkish deliveries to the US“
Interview with Banu Bekisoglu, member of the Board of the Aegean Minerals & Natural Stone Exporters (EIB)
„Çin’e yapılan blok ihracatındaki düşüşe rağmen Trump’ın uygulamaya koyduğu tarifeler, Türkiye’nin ABD’ye olan ihracatını olumlu etkileyebilir”
Ege Maden İhracatçıları Birliği Yönetim Kurulu üyesi Banu Bekişoğlu ile röportaj
Europe has endorsed considering social and ecological issues in public procurement
Up until recently municipalities were obligated to allot contracts to the lowest bidder
Euroroc informs: The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) approves tariffs against Quartz Products from China
USITC says: Those artificial stones are subsidized and violate fair trade / Accusations also against quartz from India and Turkey and against ceramics from China
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