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Marble IMPERIAL WHITE, with veins like a cascading galaxy, a texture resembling jade, and a presence as majestic as a crown, quarried by Xiaotian Mining in Cambodia

Pietrasanta, city of marble and stone sculptors, has entered the competition to become the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2027

The new “Tecton“ collection from the Italian company Monitillo 1980 and the French designer Felix Millory: Functional Sculptures

Study of the spectacular inselbergs on the Brazilian coast, where flora and fauna are being reintroduced to former quarries

Exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna through January 11, 2026: Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba played a central role in the post-war discourse on the depiction of the human being

Marmomac Meets Academies 2025: From stone powder use to a blend of slate and polymer

The installation “Fabula Litica: La Foresta Incantata” (Fable in Stone: The Enchanted Forest) in Hall 10 showcases new ideas for the application of natural stone

PORTLAND JORDANS WHITBED, a variety of the famous limestone from England, quarried by Albion Stone

Unesco has inscribed 26 new cultural and natural properties on its World Heritage List (2025)

We present some of the new entries with clear references to stone

Tartan patterns and Chesterfield sofa covers from the British Isles on marble wall tiles by the Sicilian company Lithea and designer Elena Salmistraro

Stone+tec in Nürnberg, Germany, will take place from June 17 to 20, 2026

Main topics are “Building with natural stone,“ “Equipment for professionals,“ and “Place of remembrance“ (cemeteries)

Trump‘s special tariffs for Brazil not only threaten the natural stone industry there, but also worldwide, as US consumers might switch to ceramics or artificial stone

Editions Milano commissions well-known designers to develop down-to-earth everyday objects made of natural stone and sells them via its online shop

GRAND ANTIQUE, a marble with a theatrical spirit, from the French Pyrenees, brought to the market by Italian Marmo Arredo company

Woe betide the giant when he gets angry: Tourists with coins cause serious damage at the Giant’s Causeway

They press coins into the basalt cracks, causing the metal to rust and crack the stone or cover it with streaks of color

“Artus Quellinus – Sculptor of Amsterdam“ on show in the Royal Palace during the city’s 750 anniversary year