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There will be two new natural stone trade fairs in 2025: Stonegal at the beginning of June in Galicia (Spain) and Vulcanica Stone at the end of May in Sicily

The focus will be on regional varieties (granite and lava stone, respectively)

As part of the Vinschgau Symposium in the summer of 2024 in the mountains of South Tyrol, a sound sculpture was also created

For this, the artistduo Johannes Kroeker & Elias Nunner from Regensburg, Germany collected the sound of the marble and images of the processing

OMANI BEIGE/SAHARA BEIGE, a very special limestone (marble) quarried and processed by Stones World International Co. LLC in the Sultanate of Oman

6th Henraux International Sculpture Prize: winners are Olivia Erlanger, Nicola Martini, and Tarik Kiswanson

The Henraux Foundation sees the award as a platform for new ideas in contemporary sculpture for the purpose of further development and renewal

Peter’s Corner: Because consumers currently want more experiences and entertainment rather than just things, the natural stone sector has an ideal marketing tool with its quarries – if it does it right

Indian MAKRANA MARBLE, the stone of the Taj Mahal and the Queen Victoria Memorial of Kolkata, with a strong character and luster and outstanding material features

We leave no stone unturned

ADI INDEX 2024 for he “Flow” washbasin by designer Paolo Ulian for antoniolupi; WorldSkills 2024; Abstract submission for the Global Stone Congress; Video of the month: Antonio Canova‘s sculpture “Mars and Venus“

Restyling of an elegant apartment in Malta: Antolini® supplied translucent Cristallo Traslux natural quartz for a 360 cm dining table with brass joints as two semicircles on the top

Beautiful little things made of natural stone as (Christmas)Gifts

Like in the years before, Stone-Ideas.com’s editors have collected some inspirations for presents from the wide culture of marble, granite etc

Susan Moser from Fauske Marble by Moser Aps and Joshua Levinson from Artistic Tile are new Natural Stone Institute board members

The Camerata Jovem Rochativa group with Brazilian young people from the stone sector visited Marmomac 2024 and played for the Pope in St. Peter’s Square

TEXASTONE PINK (West Texas Limestone) quarried only in the USA at the crossroads between Dallas, El Paso, Amarillo, and San Antonio

Modern Load-Bearing Stone Architecture is a topic in the new issue of the British Natural Stone Federation‘s magazine (#2)

The bells of Notre-Dame de Paris ring out for the first time since the fire in April 2019

The eight colossi, weighing from under 800 kg to a good four tons, are once again hanging in the cathedral‘s north belfry at a height of 50 m

14 international artists participate in the 4th “Forever Is Now“ exhibition near the Pyramids of Giza through November 16, 2024

The show confronts modern ideas with the almost 5000 years-old pyramids in the background