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Fairs: staying in touch with design
(August 2009) Even in the years between the biennial Marmotec Stone Fair Carrara is mobilizing its assets
Archive: all the stone news
Architecture: Cobblestone black and white
(August 2009) Austrian town expounds its past in black and white stripes in market-place pavement
Markets: 50 percent. Minus
(August 2009) Spain is suffering serious negative growth in production / Brazil also affected
Showrooms thinking big
Brazilian company Brasigran exhibits huge wall-mounted stone slabs
Art: Photo-realism in stone
Sculptor Ongky Wijana from Bali creates sculptures of animals and Asian motifs
Miscellaneous
(August 2009) Wire saws are looking toward innovative implementation in disassembly of old nuclear reactors
Markets: new opportunities for natural stone in the US real-estate market
(July 2009) According to a study by Harvard University on modernization of homes, energy conservation may create new demand
Boulders support the roof
The Mestizo-Restaurant in a city-park of Santiago de Chile bridges the exterior with the interior with natural stone blocks
Design: Never-ending mosaic ideas
(July 2009) Brazilian firm marketed 230 new ideas last year alone
Stone Stories: „Lovestones“ in Verona
(July 2009) The theatre in the city which served as backdrop to Romeo and Juliet’s dramatic romance is selling stones engraved with oaths of love to finance renovation
European Master craftsman for stonemasonry
Europe has established courses in further education for masonry in cathedral construction in an attempt to keep the pool of knowledge alive
Markets: stop rogue waste disposal
European Union develops waste disposal concept for Palestine’s stone industry
Art: XXL
Swedish artist Claes Hake is famous for his monumental granite sculptures
Miscellaneous
(July 2009) The Natural Stone Show will not take place in 2010
ICSID global Council for Industrial Designers: „All actors perform pro bono“
On the occasion of a planned international organisation for the natural stone sector, Stone-Ideas.com spoke with with Professor Dr. Peter Zec, former ICSID-president