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In the US, private demand for natural stone seems to have increased in the last months
In its newsletter, the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) states that “the average homeowner has decided to put their money to work in their own backyard”
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French company Ateliers Zelij launches a new collection with stone and terrazzo
Designer Samir Mazer with origin in Morocco plays with geometric shapes and combines this time stone, marble and full-mass terrazzo from Portugal
Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
The architects of Artı3 Mimarlık wanted to respect the residential buildings and the natural landscape around them
Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
The designers of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos have made the marble optically very light and avoid monoliths dominating the picture
EMIB President Mevlüt Kaya: “Towards added value through design, but still no renunciation of block exports, because otherwise that market will be lost to Iran”
The online issue of Turkish Stone World magazine also mentions the slump in exports from January to June 2020
“Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
As an example: Jessie Carillo, Manager of adult programs at the DMA, speaks about Claude Monet’s “The Seine at Lavacourt” (1880)
In the case of the new type of wooden bridge by Aachen University of Applied Sciences, the stone slabs on the carriageway also provide rain protection for the load-bearing beams
The construction thus achieves a long service life and, due to the natural building materials, the best CO2 results
Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
Companies can create their own presentations, upload information about projects and products / Contributions from Marmomac Academy offer stone-learning for architects, designers
Science: bubbles of molten rock rising to the surface in the earth’s mantle, a dinosaur with another fossil in its stomach, the age of our planet’s solid inner core, water on the Earth
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics
Riluc is a Portuguese manufacturer of design furniture, sometimes using natural stone
The company comes from the metalworking industry and focuses on stainless steel with various coatings
September topic of the Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s Product Focus: “Quarry Planet, Journey around the NEW Quarries”
After registration, the virtual fair gives access to company videos, stone presentations and technical details, and more
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Italian Salvatori Company has a large collection of so-called „Home Accessoires”, items made of stone which have a household function and also serve for decoration
New understanding for the vast stone monuments constructed in Saudi Arabia 7,000 years ago
The enigmatic “mustatils” may have been “ritual sites where groups of people met to perform some kind of currently unknown social activities”
At the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris, Carrara marble façade panels were replaced with Bethel White granite from the US
It was a great luck for the worldwide stone sector that after the damage to the stone this building icon was not lost to other façade materials