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Studio Apostoli’s interior design for the Lefay Resort & SPA Dolomiti: based on a reinterpretation of traditional architecture and with local materials such as wood and stone

Two new members at the Natural Stone Institute’s Board: Blake Christensen and Amit Gupta

If somewhere a boulder seems to be floating in the air, Hannes Ludescher is probably behind it

The Austrian artist knots hollow bodies from twigs, which he covers with flexible paper and paints them to look like boulders or stone

Opera Contemporary’s new products: wood as protagonist with a selection of noble materials including marble, leather and metal

Bathroom design with Zebrino Gold, a marble with straight lines and colorful stripes

One of the peculiarities of this natural stone is also that it can be obtained in slabs of maximum length 310 cm x width 90 cm

Apuo Versilia Produce’s magazine (#122) has „Economia Circulare“ (Circular Economy) in the focus (Italian)

Science news: oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere, 5000 t of space dust per year, neolitic grave goods show gendered roles for farmers, emerald production in Roman Egypt

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

France’s stone sector presents a study on the life cycle assessment (LCA) of gravestones

Objects were compared with stone from France and China, and , not surprisingly, the domestic products performed better

Granite LENNON with the typical crystals of quartz, feldspar, and mica evocatively reflecting on the surface, from Levantina

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Stripes of light granite structure the main street in the Swiss town of Liestal, whose redesign was awarded the main Flaneur d’Or prize by the Initiative Fussverkehr (Pedestrian Trafic).

Italian Marmomacchine magazine (#271) reports about how to use the diamond wire an a safe way

Peter’s Corner: 2020 brought the natural stone sector an increased demand from private customers despite the Covid-19 crisis

Overall, the coming years should also be positive because marble, granite & Co benefit from the eco-trend / However, increased freight costs bring shifts

Xiamen Stone Fair 2021 will be held from May 18 to 21, as the first hybrid natural stone show

There will be on-site visitors and exhibitors, and as a digital extension, the “Cloud“, which will continue throughout the year

Turkish natural stone exports in 2020 were negative compared to the previous year, but positive developments could also clearly be seen

Block exports to China collapsed by -22% by value due to Covid-19, but there are strong increases (almost) everywhere in deliveries of finished products

Oldest stone map from the Bronze Age rediscovered after more than 100 years in the cellar of a French museum

The relief with circles and lines comes from the Finistère region in the far west of Brittany and could depict the territory of a ruler