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Walls or piles of fieldstones (drystones) are being restored in many places

They provide habitats for animals and plants and are evidence of rural culture / Examples from Switzerland and the New England states

Chinese granite BLUE LEOPARD, with a light blue background giving a site a touch of solemnity, quarried exclusively by UMGG in Hebei province

The cemetery in the village of Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon brings the drystone walls from the surrounding area into the burial site

It lies at the foot of the Sainte Victoire massif, to which Cézanne dedicated more than 80 paintings

“Holly“ by French designer Christophe Pillet and the Italian brand Kreoo: seating furniture that lets you enjoy the shape in every way

Turkey’s natural stone exports in 2023: -7.63 % by value compared to the previous year

Declines in shipments to Europe are catastrophic and perhaps herald a new lack of interest in foreign materials among consumers there

The magazine “ApuoVersiliaProduce” of the Cosmave Association (April 2024) analyzes the natural stone exports from the Carrara region to Latin America in 2023

In a series about US quarries, the UseNaturalStone website tells the story of Yellowstone Rock made by volcanic hot springs

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

German designer Bernhard Müller characterizes his work as “timeless and minimalist.“ He founded the Hamburg-based Studio [more] in 1993

The Grande Pinnacle Award from the US Natural Stone Institute went to Polycor for its work with natural stone at the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations

Pinnacle Awards 2023 of the Natural Stone Institute (NSI)

The annual awards reflect the state of design with natural stone worldwide

AVOCATUS, a granite as green and mysterious as the Brazilian Rainforest, from Magban company located in the state of Espírito Santo

In France, the market for kitchens with countertops in 2023 was for all materials 3.9 billion € or 700,000 pieces (-6.9 % compared to the year before), Pierre Actual informs (#1036, April 2024)

Purchasing power of Europeans increased to €17,688 per capita in 2023

The biggest winner of the year was Ireland, while Norway, Germany, and the UK fell a slightly

Nature’s grandeur enhances the interior design of a chalet between heaven and earth in the Eastern Alps

Italian Antolini company provided the stone for the interior design

The 11th edition of the Turkish IMIB Association’s design competition once again attracted interesting submissions

The aim is to create saleable objects and thus add significant value to local stone on the global markets