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Art: Margheritas Marble Girdle

(October 2009) Italian artist captures warmth, tenderness, fragility and sensitivity in stone

Miscellaneous

(October 2009) Opportunities for the natural stone industry could lie in the „Incheon Free Economic Zone“ in South-Korea

Markets: How to find ideas for new products

(September 2009) Sometimes innovative ideas emerge from misappropriation of products by customers or are the result of the producers’ hidden potential

Markets: Stone-Sandwich load-bearing walls

(September 2009) Thin stone waffles combined with carbon fibre and insulation could revolutionize building

Markets: Building boom in the Land of Cedars

(September 2009) Lebanon is investing and carrying out reparations of war damage

Pentagon Memorial 9/11: the memorial conveys the incomprehensibility of the plane attack without pathos

Design: new ideas for chimney design

Spanish company Arriaga Stone is awarded one of the Red-Dot-Prizes for its innovative décor

Art: Cello for the fountain

(September 2009) French stonemason builds a fountain with musical instrument made of stone

Miscellaneous

(September 2009) Video of the Month: Moving facade

The natural stone construction kit as an air conditioner

Massive stone buildings offer numerous possibilities for sustainable, energy-saving construction

Fairs: staying in touch with design

(August 2009) Even in the years between the biennial Marmotec Stone Fair Carrara is mobilizing its assets

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