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Side table “Admeto” by Visionnaire: Marco Piva creates something completely new with a natural stone cladding

The Italian architect and designer does not want to hide anything, but to use marble without necessarily making the furniture heavy

Ceramic tiles: joint video campaign by Italian and Spanish associations

In short scenes, the ceramic tiles are presented as helpers for a comfortable, safe, and environmentally friendly everyday life / Problem of the industry: lack of qualified layers

Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra

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

The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design

The manufacturer of rough blocks develops functional products for the (upper) middle class that can be used in everyday life

TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil

Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose

Jim Bachor found the inspiration for his art during excavations in Pompeii and later, on his doorstep in Chicago

Confindustria Marmomacchine’s general assembly held on September 17, 2020, in Milan

Marco De Angelis was re-elected as president for the term 2020-2022, vice-presidents are Francesco Antolini, Federico Fraccaroli, Corradino Franzi, and Valentina Trois

Measuring the oceans’ water temperatures by sound waves of earthquakes underneath the seafloor

Caltech researchers found a way to correlate the speed of such noise with climate change

A reception counter like a massive stone block that can be extended to form a long table

Designer Davide Vercelli has played with the limestone Pietra Piasentina from northern Italy for the company Julia Marmi

Massimo Potenza is Biesse Group’s new Co-CEO to guide the process of transformation and evolution that the company has been undergoing

The aim is to respond to the permanent global changes with a flexible and resilient staff “in a proactive way”

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

Dr. Rivka Amit from the Geological Survey of Israel found that dust deposition by desert winds played a critical role in forming thick or thin soils around the Eastern Mediterranean

The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth

New World Wealth’s market researchers, together with Webster Pacific, have conducted a new study to find out where the rich and super-rich there prefer to live

The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents

Scientists from New York University simulated the chemical and mechanical processes

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

The famous World Ocean Floor Panorama, published in 1977, was based on Marie Tharp’s (1920-2006) work in global seabed mapping

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

The country’s stone sector presents itself with Haute Couture alone – the Prêt-à-Porter is completely missing and left over to the competitors