Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

“Karst Gem“ is the name design studio alcarol gave its new side table. It is made of a boulder of karst rock embedded in a mold of crystal-clear resin

14 international artists show their works at the 3rd “Forever Is Now“ exhibition in the area of the Pyramids of Giza and the surrounding plateau through November 17, 2023

With the 3rd edition of the competition “Amorf“ for product design with natural stone, the Turkish Aegean Association EIB wants to give added value to the country’s natural resources

New in Our Stone Finder: White limestone MARINA ROSAL with a perfect Mediterranean look, from Spanish Rosal Stones company

Italian sculptor Emanuela Camacci makes new works of art from the stone chips that fall off her large sculptures

But she does not adorn herself with current buzzwords like recycling or circular economy

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art in Namibia

Indigenous trackers could identify the prints’ species, sex and age for 90% of analyzed engravings

Remnants of amethyst, jasper, agate, and quartz for light sources

Alfonso Martinez Brianza, product designer from Uruguay, finds uses for residues of semi-precious stones

Los Angeles LACMA exhibition “Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone“ through February 11, 2024

The show brings together art pieces that utilize the colors, veins and other natural features of stones

Peter’s Corner: at Marmomac, the newfound old solid (massive) construction was on display, namely with native stone as the load-bearing material

Prototypes were presented within the framework of “Marmomac Meets Academies“

WEIBERNER TUFF, light gray and brown volcanic stone from the Eifel mountains near Cologne in Germany, a very light and very porous building material used since ancient times