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Marble ROSA PORTUGAL, one of the country’s best-known stones, under the name of Estremoz Marble included in the list of Geoheritage Stones

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

Video of the month: the safety instructions on board airplanes are usually a boring routine. Egypt Air, however, presents the rules as icons on stone pillars from the time of the pyramids

“What are the costs to France of importing natural stone?“ asks a study by the French stone association

The SNROC association presented a typically French perspective on the sustainability subject at the Rocalia trade fair in December 2023

For a family burial chapel in a castle park in Styria, Austria, the architects at Berger+Parkkinen were guided entirely by the old stone in the grounds

Swedish magazine „Sten“ (01/2024) reports about sculptor Anna-Malin Andersson who makes stone replicas of the country’s

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