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Art: stones telling stories

(December 2009) Germany’s new ice-age-adventure-path with its glacial erratics is a masterpiece

Miscellaneous

(December 2009) Life Cycle Assessments are becoming an ever increasingly important theme

Markets: Industrial Design – big Opportunity

Products for house, home, and gardening may open up new markets for the natural stone sector

Fairs: Sustained Growth for Eastern Markets

(November 2009) Marmomacc registers a big drop in attendance / Statistical yearbook „Stone 2009“

Markets: No more yellowing

(November 2009) Tenax has a new resin resilient to sunrays in hot climates

Flow of the Stone Wall

British landscape architect Andy Goldsworthy creates unusual slate art in London’s City Centre

Design: Ready-to-install parquet in natural stone

(November 2009) Brazilian Company fuses stone rods for flooring or countertops

Planed: a pan-continental network for natural stone

Marmomacc saw the first tangible steps toward the foundation of a global organization for the stone branch

Delicate Balance

Artist Shane Hart from USA stacks rocks and then watches them collapse

Miscellaneous

(November 2009) Printing sandstone instead of stonewalling

SILVER CLOUD, a marble in silver and grey with light veins and spots from Stonetech company, Greece

Design: Playground for the designer

(October 2009) „Marmomacc meets design” campaign once again bore many unusual ideas

Architecture: Distinction not only for the Marble Opera house

(October 2009) The Marmomacc prize for architectural distinction awarded for projects around the world

Design: Living like in a Venetian Palace

For his exhibit „The Doge’s Marble“ at Marmomacc 2009, Raffaello Galiotto found design inspiration in the ancient splendor of the Doge’s Palace in Venice

Design: Wonderland out of Marble and Onyx

(October 2009) At Marmomacc, „Marbleous Garden“ plays with material and the beholder’s imagination