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Pierre Brousse, owner of Rocamat company, is the new president of French SNROC stone association
He was elected for the period of 2016-2019 at the organization’s general assembly in Paris
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Stonemart India: branch beseeches politicians, not to fix higher luxury goods tariffs on natural stone
At Jaipur’s Trade Fair in the State of Rajasthan preventative lobbying was under way to avert the worst
Elyn Zimmerman’s „Wind, Water, Stone” on view at Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, USA
The artist explores the relationship between light, color, scale, material and 3D-spaces / On show is also Ned Smyth, among others
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„PAR JUPITER“!!“ (By Jupiter): A monument has been erected in the French city of Angoulème commemorating the famous cartoon artist René Goscinny, intellectual father of Asterix and Obelix
3D-Printing with stone slurry: „Stone on Demand“ offers many new possibilities for the marble branch
Recycling waste from stone production / The stone branch should be weary not to miss the bandwagon as in the case of engineered stone
Hermana República: In the restaurant behind the gabions craft beer is served
The unobtrusive Merida-based building in Yucatán’s capital makes numerous references to its surroundings
„Sculto“: fair for Spanish sculptors in La Rioja, Spain
Galleries are invited to present their works in the marketplace of Logroño / International enlargement planned for 2018
Foster + Partners’ win competition for a new luxury hotel in Makkah looking at the Holy Kaaba
The design follows a philosophy of ‚luxury with humility’ with an understated elegance throughout the development, says one of the architects
Best of 2016: Design with natural stone
The editors of Stone-Ideas.com have compiled articles and reports with the most clicks in 2016
Ancient fabrics from the Mediterranean for the walls in a fancy restaurant in London
Lithea company from Sicily produced the wall tiles designed by Pierluigi Piu
Planet Earth has one more continent: Zealandia
The plate around New Zealand and New Caledonia once broke away from Gondwana / Its mountains are nowadays covered by water except NZ and NC
Showing the emotional side of Marble in the quarry and the factory
Banu Bekişoğlu is CEO of the SU Marble Company and was now elected to the regional natural stone trade organization EIB’s board of directors
Drilling core with a length of 1,6 km coming from a depth of nearly 5 km under sea level
An international team of scientists is making steps to understand the process of subduction of one continental plate under another
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„Blue Hole“ is the name marine scientists have given to giant craters in the ocean near the water’s surface, e.g. in the limestone structure of a coral reef
Natural-stone-concrete-sandwich provides maximum structural integrity at minimum costs
Swiss-based Futurafrosch in cooperation with sandstone company Bärlocher and other partners has developed new technology