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6000 years ago artists all over Europe used mother-of-pearl from freshwater mussels for dress accessories

So-called „double buttons“ may have been pressed into leather to decorate armbands or belts

The Turkish Natural Stone Trade Organization EIB launched its WeChat-Account at the Xiamen Stone Fair 2019

The Aegean Stone Producers will use the Chinese social media for marketing purposes

„Printemps de la Pierre“ (Stone Spring) at the Massif Central in France until June 30, 2019

Promotion of local stone and stonemasons’ culture / Focus on Drystone Walling

A building with a double façade with stone foils and aluminum pillars outside

Grassi Pietre company supplied its Pietra di Vicenza limestone for the Residence Duchessa Margherita in Northern Italy

Saint-Malo’s Fort de la Conchée shows the art of the old builders and their stonemasons

Erected under the reign of Luis XIV, the Fort was badly damaged during WWII but restored almost completely since then

Researches found a new „Burgess Shale“ along the bank of the Danshui River in China

Another treasure chest of the Cambrian Explosion when early animal life on Earth reached an extreme diversity

Reclaiming stock: Salvatori is reconstructing slabs using the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi

Rund um die Marke „The Lost Stones“ gibt es allerlei Wortgeklingel aus der Designerkiste

Three new works in stone at Dutch Kröller-Müller Museum’s sculpture garden

„Battery for five fingers“ by Jan van Munster, „Rockswarm“ by Bill Woodrow and „my poetry is the world …“ by herman de vries

Salone del Mobile in Milan 2019: „The client wants marble“

The furniture branch is introducing items with natural stone affordable for the middle class, too

DARK OLIVE, a decorative brownish green marble with a homogenous structure, quarried by Turkish Silkarstone company

Application open for on form, a sales exhibition in England dedicated only to stone sculpture

From June 13 to July 12, 2020 works of 30 to 40 artists will be presented at Asthall Manor near Oxford

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

This year’s Xiamen Stone Fair saw again the Lundhs Soccer Cup on the late afternoon of the 2nd day when international stone-teams competed on the fairground

In commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death: catapults for heavy chunks and a quartzite bearing his name

The universal mastermind of the 15th century also busied himself with stone

„Stone Infinite“ exhibition at Xiamen Stone Fair showed the beauty and the wide range of product design with natural stone

Everyday objects with high functionality for usage in everyday life / Designers from Asia, Europe and Latin America

National Bank of Oman: it’s all about the Sultan’s Land – not about the power of money

Architects at LOM designed the limestone façade and the atrium to reflect geological strata and Oman’s gorges respectively