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Markets: Traction for extreme-sport athletes
(August 2012) French-based company supports bicycle and motorbike competitions in the mountains with granite trophies
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(August 2012) Carrara’s Marmotech has mutated to a show of different types of regional marble
Design: „Marble’s symbolic and spiritual power“
(August 2012) „Thus Spoke the Marble“ is the motto of the Turkish trade associations present their design ideas
Markets: Recycling must be the prominent topic
(August 2012) What consumers want to know about sustainability / British Natural Stone Sustainability Award as a role-model for PR-strategies
Architecture: Marble-look glass in Origami-Folds
(August 2012) A Paris office building was clad in an innovative natural stone imitation
Art: lifeless stone and human flesh
(August 2012) Paris’ Musée Rodin is currently showing the exhibit „Rodin, flesh and marble“
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(August 2012) Moscow’s Expostone 13th Trade Fair had 363 companies from 22 countries
Architecture: Bathing in noble ambiance
(July 2012) Natural stone for the bathroom: examples from Italy, Russia and the Netherlands
Design: stone tables as contrast to excitement and ephemerality
(July 2012) Italian-based Marsotto Edizioni introduces its new everyday products
Design: Kaleidoscope of colors in stone
(July 2012) Brazilian company produces multi-colored stone based on marble, granite and other types of stone
Architecture: 1920’s gem
(July 2012) Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic restored to its original condition
Miscellaneous
(July 2012) Consentino announces new type of engineered stone for outdoor use
Design: Ideas for everyday products in natural stone
(July 2012) Whereas many of the natural-stone design-products shown at Verona’s Marmomacc are, in truth, works of art, Milan’s furniture trade fair exhibits true product-design pieces
Markets: Russia an up-and-coming import market, China a super-power
(July 2012) The IMM Carrara statistical yearbook takes a glance at the near and distant future of the stone branch
Art: „I consider all my life as a trip“
(July 2012) Italian artist Giuliano Giussani expresses his observations of the world around and inside him in his sculptures