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Marmomac 2019: Hardly a stand with the usual opulence
Is the Italian stone branch eating humble pie because of poor export stats and global uncertainty?
Archive: all the stone news
The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago: mere concrete and thus of limited durability
In the closing months of 1989 just about all the citizens of the GDR gathered to march in protest and brought down the socialist regime
A „Tree of Rest“ by artist Elsa as a sculpture made of slate at a woodland cemetery in Luxembourg
French sculptress Elsa worked the symbolic piece of art in an open atelier near the village of Olm (Kehlen)
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
Strong winter dust storms (shamals) with droughts may have caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire
Fossil coral records provide new facts why the ancient state in Mesopotamia suddenly collapsed and was taken over by invaders
Modern mosaics made of natural stone and special mirrors
Italian Antique Mirror Company lends many-facetetted means of expression to its glass
Tremendous fire at the Shuri Castle in Japan
The World Heritage site going back to the Ryuku kingdom has walls with stones composed in the Incan style known from ancient Latin America
„Marble Warsaw Fair“ will take place for the 1st time from June 01 to 04, 2020 in the capital of Poland
The new fair is a cooperation of Polish fair company PTAK Warsaw with Turkish organizer of „Marble Izmir Fair“
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Philippines’ national mapping agency (Namria) has announced that there are more than 500 new islands in the country as a result of new high-resolution radar data
The façade at 35 Hudson Yards shows a compelling interplay of glass and Jura-Limestone by Franken-Schotter
Architects at David M. Childs/Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) designed the complex to look unique from every angle
New understanding why mother-of-pearl is so hard and so resilient
Researchers at the University of Michigan show that nacre’s inner structure deforms under pressure and than springs back to normal
„Functional sculptures“ is a small but exclusive market for natural stone
The objects which are hermaphrodites: part art and part product design, are both aesthetically pleasing and, at least to a certain degree, useful
Handvärk from Denmark: dining table with Italian marble top on a slender steel frame
The company creates furniture that will last a lifetime with materials that will only become more beautiful over time
