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Ancient lettering in stone

On the Croatian Isle of Krk, a pathway is reminiscent of the Glagolitic alphabet

Trade fairs: Xiamen expands

(April 2011) The Chinese city has new exhibition grounds and an international centre for the stone branch. The fair is seeing an increase in copyright infringement of designer products

Markets: „Our aim is not merely to produce raw material: we are interested in manufacturing the value-added product“

Interview with Zou Chuansheng, President of the China Stone Material Association, the country’s natural stone association

Design: News from the Nile

(April 2011) Techno Marble is an Egyptian company specializing in modern design

Stone symposia scheduled for the months ahead

(April 2011) High times for hammer and chisel

Miscellaneous

(April 2011) The earthquake in March shifted Japan’s coastline 5 m

Restoration of the Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm (2): the facade is characterized by the new interpretations of the Tudor style from England fashionable in the late 19th century

Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm: after the 2017 fire disaster, the facade shines again in its colorful elegance (1)

We describe the restoration steps of the sandstone ashlars, which stem from boulders, not quarries

Design: Nice things for outdoors (2)

(March 2011) Furniture for out of doors for streets, parks and gardens. Our focus this time is on a building-block system in natural stone

Architecture: Flying carpets

(March 2011) French company develops aluminium honeycombs with stone which can be flexed

Don’t put it off: Have your homepage translated

(March 2011) BusinessStone.com’s translators offer readers the opportunity to have their texts translated

Architecture: … and they lived happily ever after

Croatian examples of modern architecture using local material in endemic forms

Miscellaneous

(March 2011) French Compagnonnage as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Architecture: Ideas for walls, facades and ground surfaces (3)

(March 2011) Building with natural stone: a former farmhouse in Switzerland, a document centre in Berlin, a luxury hotel in London and a university institute in the Netherlands

Markets: Stone from the Amazon

(March 2011) Brazil takes stock of natural stone concentrations in its northern regions / Exports up in 2010