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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

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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.

Latest news: Application open (until September 01, 2024) for the 6th International Tuwaiq Symposium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Works must be realized in local granite, may incorporate black basalt, and will later adorn the kingdom’s capital

VOLAKAS WHITE, a dolomitic marble with bluish veins, quarried in Volakas near Thessaloniki, by Greek Nordia Marbles company

In the magazine Sten (03/2024), the Swedish stone association presents the shortlist for the architectural awards and the winners of the students‘ stone design competition 2024

The magazine „Mármol“ (October 2024) by Spanish AEMA association shows examples for the use of the marble from the Macael region

Unesco has added 26 properties to its List of World Heritage Sites, among them the remains of the Sīma stone tradition in Thailand, Beijing’s Central Axis and the Roman Via Appia in Italy

From our archive (2018): Italian Pimar company’s „Case e Casette“ (Houses and Huts) may be toys for adults

Messapò is a system of two modules to create indivudal furniture inspired by drystone walling

Chelsea Flower Show 2024: Stones have always played an important role in the planning of sustainable gardens

The central themes were again the use of natural materials and also reuse

The architect Gilles Perraudin and the company Carrières de Provence show how playful solid stone construction can be

The façade walls of the company showroom are thick, but not at all heavy-handed and not boring either

Yellowish REINHARDTSDORFER sandstone with fossil relics, quarried in Saxony, much used for many centuries in Germany, and recently for spectacular reconstructions

Habitat Interior Design Exhibition (XHDLF) at Xiamen Stone Fair 2024

The aim was to open new horizons for the use of stone, thus giving the consumer an up-to-date idea of the material and developing new markets for the sector companies