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VERT D’ESTOURS, a marble with green or blue veins on a white-ivory background, suitable for every usage, from the French Pyrenees

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

“Halo“ is the name of a new pendant lamp by Spanish United Alabaster company. It consists of two overlapping rings suspended from a single ceiling base

The Pietra Naturale Autentica network of companies has launched its new “Naturalmente Sostenibile” (Naturally Sustainable) campaign

The aim is to bring the ecological strength of Italy’s stone sector closer to the consumer

The second edition of the “Forever is Now“ art exhibition at the Gizeh Pyramids reflected on time and timelessness, land and history, ecology and humanity

The Portuguese sailors on their voyages of discovery to India had prefabricated stone pillars on board as rulers’ signs to be placed along the coasts, presumably also as ship’s ballast

Red marble ROJO LEVANTINA, a classic stone for interior decoration that seems to have fire inside, from Spanish Levantina group

In the EU project NanoSafe, an inventory was made of the use of nano-materials on natural stone and in the construction industry

VR learning materials inform about health protection

Marsotto‘s showroom in Milan‘s Brera District has been included in the ADI Design Index of 2022

Oki Sato from design studio nendo conceived the unusual display case

Euroroc General Assembly at Marmomac 2022: central issues among companies across Europe are high energy costs and shortage of skilled workers

Representatives of natural stone associations from countries in and outside the EU presented the situation at home

AFYON CALACATTA, an extremely hard marble with color tones like purple, black, yellow, or brown, quarried in Iscehisar/Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, by Efesus Stone company

Premios Macael: Spain’s King and Queen paid recognition to the stone sector in the province of Almeria

Don Felipe and Doña Letizia presented the awards at the Premios Macael gala / 20 years ago, TV journalist Letizia Ortiz was herself the presenter at the event

Italy’s ceramics industry has a new marketing campaign that is all about sustainability

At the center of it all is a video lasting just one minute that gets the message across emotionally

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

News from the Elgin marbles: A robot-made copy of the head of Selen’s horse in the British Museum is on show at the Freud museum in London. It was produced by the Institute of Digital Archaeology at the University of Oxford

Almaart Studio brings out the hidden images from exotic stones and makes them disappear again between veins and colors

“The hidden art of nature“ is the product slogan of two artists from near New York City

The Warche Shistose Sandstone quarried by Belgian Nelles-Frères company is very hard, and its wide color range from rusty to gray and blue allows beautiful material combinations