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MARJAN SILVER, a travertine with a unique tone of gray, renowned for its timeless elegance and sophisticated appeal, quarried by Iranian MGT Stone company

The Hotel “El Fuerte” in Marbella is one of the topics in the Spanish Macael Association’s magazine #15 (June 2024)

Salone del Mobile in Milan 2024: trying out what the Trade Fair of the future could look like

Under its President Maria Porro, Milan’s major event for the furniture industry is applying the industry mantra of creativity to itself

(S)-T-O-P principle: one of the topics at Stone+tec (Nuremberg, June 19 – 22, 2024) will be protection against fine dust at work

Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders will also be featured

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

Some 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals deliberately hunted down and slaughtered European straight-tusked elephants . They used stone tools to cut up the giant prey

Building against climate change: “Renaissance of the almost forgotten natural stone“

At a parliamentary evening in Berlin, representatives from the German construction industry and politics learned about the possibilities of the material

HERMES GREY, a marble with intricate veins in varying shades of grey and white, quarried in Southern China by Decina Industrial Holding

The Swedish Natural Stone Association’s magazine “Sten” (02/2024) presents the marble works that will be presented at the Living Stockholm summer exhibition

62. Salone del Mobile: Photo gallery (1)

We show product ideas from this year‘s furniture fair in Milan (April 15 – 21, 2024) that caught our eye

Visiting stone sights in the Xiamen area and natural and artificial stone companies

The China Stone Material Association (CSMA) organized excursions for architects to the surroundings of the fair city

Nature in an active quarry: Rosal Stones has conducted an inventory of animals and plants in its San Cosme limestone quarry

“Horizontal“ quarrying might have a positive effect

Marmomac 2024 has “Stone takes the stage“ as slogan

The message is that natural stone offers innovative applications in art, architecture, and design

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

Bologna’s leaning Garisenda Tower is showing “anomalous movements“ raising fear that it might collpase. The city has launched an additional program to secure the famous monument and ist neighboring tower

Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm: after the 2017 fire disaster, the facade shines again in its colorful elegance (1)

We describe the restoration steps of the sandstone ashlars, which stem from boulders, not quarries

Restoration of the Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm (2): the facade is characterized by the new interpretations of the Tudor style from England fashionable in the late 19th century