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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

Magazine “Turkish Stone World” #121 reports about replanting an abondoned quarry in Antalya’s Korkuteli district

Salone del Mobile 2023: our photo gallery gives an overview of how designers are currently using natural stone to design the stands and the furniture pieces

At the Design Week and the FuoriSalone 2023 in downtown Milan, parallel to the large Salone del Mobile fair, numerous companies and initiatives from all over the world presented themselves again

At the Salone del Mobile 2023 the business world was turned topsy turvy: the flâneur was a target group of the international fair

The 4 halls of Euroluce invited to promenade and to establish contacts between companies and NEW customers

Locally sourced limestone adds structure and strength to historic buildings in the US, UseNaturalStone webpage writes

“Memorie di Pietro Grassi“: how the stone sector was 3 generations ago and how everyday life in Europe has changed since then

The senior of Grassi Pietre srl has written an account of his life and that of his ancestors

In the desert city of Diriyah alone, Saudi Arabia is planning 38 luxury hotels with the aim of becoming a major player in tourism for wealthy travelers

In the other Gulf states, too, the focus is exclusively on the luxury segment

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

Japanese astronomers have observed a superflare on a star located 400 light years away in the constellation Orion, depicted here on an artist’s impression with a binary star in the background

The Centro de Cultura Ambiental Chapultepec (Chapultepec Center for Environmental Culture) in Mexico City recreates the rim of a volcanic crater

The goal of the architects of Erre Q Erre was to integrate the new facility into the existing natural landscape

ALABAMA MARBLE, an extremely strong stone dubbed “the finest marble in the world,“ quarried in the Appalachian mountains by AM3 Stone