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The Spanish Premios Macael were bestowed for the 35th time

The award recognizes buildings from all over the world that have used natural and engineered stone from companies in Andalusia

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

A stormy, active sun during Earth’s first 100 million years may have kickstarted life on our planet.

Arguments in favor of natural stone: Peter Becker of Stone-Ideas.com will speak at the Xiamen Stone Fair about best-practice examples of how companies and associations make their material palatable to consumers

“Velata“ by Raffaello Galiotto for Margraf: snapshot of when the wind has driven under a tablecloth, pushing the fabric away on one side and letting it flutter on the other

On the 50th aniversary of Dellas company, the magazine Apuo Versilia Produce (#135) has made an interview with the company focusing on diamond tools

Citco at Salone del Mobile 2023: artistic stone objects, the kind you might use as accents in a home interior

Designers were Ron Arad, Fabrizio Bendazzoli, Estudio Campagna, Zaha Hadid Design, and Citco Design

At the European Stone Festival in Salzburg, stonemasons and sculptors will show how they turn their ideas into small sculptures

During the weekend from June 03 and 04, 2023, the venue will be the Kapitelplatz, close to the cathedral

In his book “Kulturgeschichte des Mühlsteins“ (Cultural History of the Millstone), former CEO Harald Marschner tells of the thick round stones, how they came out of the quarries and how the millers knew how to work with them

Sensation finds from Jordan and Saudi Arabia: carvings in stone are the oldest construction plans of humanity

The depictions describe so-called desert kites, which are long stone ramparts for catching animals in the former savannah

Peters Corner: what it means for the natural stone sector that Polycor, with more than 50 quarries and 20 factories in Canada, the U.S. and France, has become one of the big fish in the business

Stone Magazine “Sten” (02/2023) presents 3 Swedish designers who work with natural stone: Agnes Mohlins, Maja Bakken, Sara Ekholm

Elyn Zimmerman’s work “Sudama,“ with reflective and rough granite surfaces, was moved to American University in Washington DC

The monumental work, formerly titled: “Marabar,“ references the caves of Indian monks and allows nature and culture to interplay

An interactive 3D model recreates the Old Man of the Mountain that fell off the cliff in New Hampshire on May 03, 2003

The face-shaped granite formation destroyed by weathering once was the state emblem

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

“Marble. Carving the Future“ is the title of the new marketing campaign of the Italian association Confindustria Marmomacchine with the support of the export organization ICE

Best prospects for the natural stone sector in China: the government aims to increase private consumption of high-quality and environmentally friendly products

Guidelines are the turn to quality and to a “green“ consumption as well as the strengthening of the domestic market in general