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Turkish Alimoglu Marble Company has launched its own natural stone design brand under the name Stone Studio
Alimoglu Marble mass-produces household items / technical term: industrial design
Remembrance of the avalanche that destroyed Mogno village – Mario Botta’s famous church San Giovanni Battista as a new start
In the Swiss Ticino on June 26, 2016 will be held a memorial day with a „Via dell’artigianato” (artisans’ street)
Fila has developed a new method to combat stains on natural stone
The SCM Staincheck-Method enables users to reliably estimate the future progress of staining in every-day use of natural stone
Morà Eyewear in cooperation with Decormarmi’s Kreoo now also uses Blue Sodalite
The company brings natural stone together with carbon fiber for fancy glasses of only 32 grams weight
Swedish designer Erik Olovsson orchestrates the many contrasts between glass and natural stone
„Indefinite Vases“ are small sculptures which can, among other things, be used as receptacles for cut flowers
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Spring 2016-issue of Building Stone Magazine can be downloaded free of charge.
„Another feature in China’s stone industry is the increasing importation of processed stone products“
The China Stone Material Association ascertains turnaround in the local stone branch with incipient market consolidation
Marmomacc 2016: More about architecture with stone, again innovation and design as focus and 2000 sqm more
Hall 1 at the Verona fair (September 28 – October 01, 2016) will give a look into the future of stone and also into design history
Turning carbon from CO2 into solid material at an unbelievable rate
Scientists from Iceland and others make the climate gas precipitate into basalt within only two years, not over geological timescales
A ship made of marble prisms commemorating slave trade across the Atlantic
The sculpture at the entrance to the UN Headquarters bears the inscription „Ark of Return“, and won one of MIA’s 2015 Pinnacle Awards
Everyday products made of stone bear in themselves an immense chance to promote marble, granite etc
At the 1st Sustainable Stone Conference during the Carrara Marmotec trade fair, Peter Becker from Stone-Ideas.com lectured about Ecodesign
City festival in Strzegom, Poland: stonework on the market place and a run along granite quarries
Lower Silesia’s heart of granite production will have its central local event from June 17 – 19, 2016
Marsotto Edizioni, studio nendo: „surprise, irony and delight“ in natural stone product design
The household product forerunner in marble showed his „Light & Shadow“ collection at the Milan Design Week
Another long-forgotten civilization lost: underwater remains of an ancient Greek city are of natural origin
Alleged paved floors, courtyards and colonnades were created by geological phenomenon up to five million years ago