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DIETFURT LIMESTONE GALA BEIGE, suitable for exterior paving in freeze-thaw conditions, quarried in Bavaria, Germany, by Franken-Schotter

Casa Mosaico de Belas Artes in Portugal, designed by the interior architects of Ippolito Fleitz

The exclusive home serves as both a private retreat and an open stage for the residents

After many years of growth, natural stone consumption in Germany fell sharply in 2023 (-19.1%)

The DNV association does not expect a trend reversal in the construction industry until 2025

In its 2024 collection, Lithea and its designers are looking at the reefs in the Mediterranean and down to the floor of the ocean

Elena Salmistraro and the creatives at Martinelli Venezia Studio have once again been inspired by the “Mare Nostrum”

SCHWEINSTAL SANDSTONE, a buntsandstein with a wide range of colors quarried by Carl Picard Natursteinwerk in Germany

KYKNOS WHITE, KYKNOS VEINS, and KYKNOS FLORAL, varieties of a white marble quarried near Thessaloniki, by Greek company Nordia Marbles

How local limestone was smoothed into slabs on the island of Öland for wealthy citizens’ houses around the Baltic Sea

In “scouring trips,“ the surfaces of the large tiles were worked using animal or wind power

“Solace“ is the name of a 650-square-meter villa in Southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert with interior redesign by JSF Design Inc. using stone from Antolini®

EU project “Inclusivestone“: Informing people with disabilities and disadvantages about jobs in the stone sector and recruiting them as employees

Many of the activities there are now carried out on machines or from a computer

Malik Architecture build a house entirely of sandstone for a wealthy client in Jaipur, India

The walls are in a doublewythe assembly with optimum thermal insulation

POLARIS WHITE, a marble with a deep white and decorative grayish veins, quarried near Prilep, North Macedonia, by Greek company Nordia Marble

“Selecting the Ideal Stone Finish” is the title of a report on UseNaturalStone

We leave no stone unturned

Designer Luca Erba has created tables with a double top for the Italian company Marelli; Study: Who has the largest burial mound? Video from the British Musuem: The oldest map of humanity on a piece of clay from Babylonian times

The Natural Stone Institute informs: Silica Guidance Documents from the Yale School of Medicine now available

Portugal maintained its all-time high of almost half a billion euros in natural stone exports in 2023 from the previous year

Significantly better sales prices per ton were achieved again in almost all target markets.