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7 Bryant Park, Manhattan: Corporate Architecture with an hourglass, limestone, marble and granite
Luxurious building complex by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Architects use the hourglass as a leitmotif and were rewarded with a Tucker Design Award
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Xiamen Stone Fair has now its focus on a qualitative growth in order to become the worldwide showcase for news in the branch
The 17th issue in 2017 brought only moderate increase in the numbers of visitors / Continuing trend to intricate booth design
Cancellation of cancellation: Vitória Stone Fair will now take place in June 06-09, 2017
Since long time, exhibitors had been discontented with the February date due its proximity to carnival and Xiamen Stone Fair
Salvatori: Natural stone lamps and a bathroom collection
News from Italian specialist for innovative and luxury-ideas in marble
White in a lot of tones in the „Monochrome“ exhibition in London’s Ordovas gallery
Sculptures made in marble, Alabaster and other materials by significant 20th century artists
Slate akin to a river of molten lava, pressed up a wall and continuing to flow along the ceiling
Stroili Stone conjured up something special for its Vienna showroom – a mise-en-scène in natural stone
Hundreds of ancient earthworks built in the Amazon rain forest
Pre-columbian indigenous people created Geoglyphs nowadays made visible by deforestation
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
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
Briefly noted
„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