New funding from the Düsseldorf Art Commission for art in public space

Local as well as internationally active artists are called upon to develop experimental and temporary concepts for the urban space of Düsseldorf

Portugal also saw strong increases in its natural stone exports in 2021 compared to the previous year (by value: +17.62%), although this is only +1.89% compared to the last pre-Covid year 2019

Venue for the 2023 EuroSkills from September 05 to 09 will be Gdańsk in Poland

The vocational competition’s umbrella organization withdrew the event from the original host St. Petersburg as a city in Putin’s Russia

Notre-Dame de Paris: the approximately 1000 cubic meters of limestone needed for the reconstruction are to come from 9 quarries

Suppliers are quarries from the area of Saint-Maximin (Oise) et Soissons (Aisne), located in the basin Lutétien

New in our Stone Finder:Very hard and resistant Belgian sandstone GRÈS DU BOIS D’ANTHISNES with many color variations, quarried by Carrière GBA company

The Fortaleza Brazil Stone Fair (FBSF), from November 09 to 11, 2022, will heat up the international market for natural stones and covering

The 6th issue of the show will take place in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in the north of the country

Under the motto “Piano in the Quarry,“ the Polish city of Strzegom had the country‘s best pianists perform in a former quarry as part of its cultural festival at the end of August 2022

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

Vesuvius‘ last major eruption was in 1944, and this could be the beginning of a longer period of quiescence with only minor volcanic events, scientists at ETH Zurich suspect based on studies of the magma chamber under the mountain

Natural stone from Belgium always comes from Wallonia, and among the famous from there is the petit granite or the red and black marble

The local stones still characterize the face of the villages today

New in our Stone Finder: LONDON SKY, a quartzite radiating calm through its neutral gray background with light veins, from Brazilian Vitoria Stone group