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The big themes in the furniture industry at the moment are naturalness, durability, high-quality materials and the careful use of resources

The imm Cologne 2024 trade fair confirmed these megatrends in the industry

Reclaimed Collection from British Lapicida company: Walking on History

Reused stone and terracotta tiles can tell the story how they came to their picturesque patina

The five sculptures from the Rhineland-Palatinate 2023 Sculpture Symposium have been erected in the vast landscape around Kaiserslautern

“Peace and democracy“ was the motto of the monumental works made of local red sandstone or steel

Swedish Natural Stone Award 2023: a kitchen island with the house around it, a villa with a façade made of stone from the quarry next door, a square with slabs and cobblestones around, and a model of a natural park made of diabase

Italian Ceramic Industry’s magazine “Cer“ (#68) reports about reducing energy consumption with ventilated facades

Peter‘s Corner: What could it mean for Brazil‘s stone branch that the trade fair in Vitória is being shifted to São Paulo by its owner Veronafiere and given the new name “Marmomac Brazil“?

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

Michelangelo‘s secret room at the Museum of the Medici Chapels in Florence will remain open for the public until the end of June 2024

PITAYA exotic granite, a stone named after the Southern designation of the Dragon Fruit, quarried in Brazil’s state of Espírito Santo by Vitória Stone company

News from the natural stone sector’s competitors: The induction hob from Gaggenau entirely disappears in the countertop made of Cosentino‘s Dekton engineered stone

Sal Orlando likes to assemble his small stone figures from colored stones with strong veins

The Californian artist follows an unusual path for sculptors

NSI Announces 2023 Scholarship Recipients: Joanne Bish for the Women in Stone Empowerment, Frances Alderson, Tiffany Biagi, and Robert McCoy for the Natural Stone Scholarship

New in our calendar of trade fairs for design / lifestyle: events for consumer goods und gifts

Increasingly, producers of beautiful little things made of natural stone are exhibiting at such fairs

WHITE MICHELANGELO PRIME®, a white marble with gray veins and golden details, from Brazilian company Michelangelo, located in the Southern state of Paraná

Brazil’s stone exports 2023: by value -13.4% compared to the previous year, yet still above the magic US$ 1 billion mark

Probably, also the other big export countries will have negative balance sheets in 2023, as one could already guess from the quarterly figures

Bertrand Iribarren elected new President of the French stone association SNROC

He will focus on “democratizing“ French natural stone to the public and emphasizing the material‘s low carbon footprint