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Ceramics trade fair Cersaie 2022: Plant motifs for wall tiles were presented at a conspicuously large number of stands

Sustainability was the defining theme everywhere, natural stone copies or large formats only made a marginal appearance

Marmomac 2022: photo gallery

We show photos of some of the booths and of some product ideas from this year’s Marmomac.

Young designers from Ukraine showed works at Marmomac 2022 with which they addressed the situation of their country during the war

For the fair, they had made art objects and objects for everyday use, respectively

Natural Stone Institute Publishes First Industry-Wide Environmental Product Declarations and Health Product Declarations for Natural Stone

Dr. Carlo Montani: the global natural stone sector has also come through the Covid-19 pandemic with flying colors and is looking to a rosy future

By 2025, the old master of numbers expects consumption to quadruple compared to 1996

GRAY UKRAINE, a bright granite from the Pokostivske Deposit in the Zhytomyr region, quarried by TD Kometa company

The strength of the natural stone sector is reflected in the exhibitor and visitor numbers at Marmomac 2022 despite the many current crises

For the first time, the fair put a “green“ label on itself

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

“El Desierto Florido“ (The blossoming Desert) is a phenomenon in Chile’s Atacama when it has rained there. During October 2022, the driest place on Earth was in color again

“Clis” suspension and table lamps with interchangeable covers in stone and metal by Bartoli design for Laurameroni

Customization is a central idea for these everyday objects with style and elegance

After many years of abstract sculpture, US sculptress Susan Falkman has now arrived at concrete themes, depicting climate change and the destruction of the world in marble

PANDA WHITE, a Turkish marble best for interior architecture or furniture design, quarried on Marmara Island, by Efesus Stone

Topping the list of 20 cities worldwide with the most rich and super-rich is N.Y.C.

The new study by market researchers at World Wealth, together with Henley & Partners, also asks which centers will rise in the near future

Exhibition “Donatello: Inventor of the Renaissance“ until January 08, 2023, in the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin, and 2023 in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum

“Wave“ sink by designer couple Fuksas for antoniolupi

What is also successful about the work is how the actual basin and the drain are housed in the artwork

Andalusia’s marble companies will extract significantly less natural stone from their quarries in 2022 due to rising energy costs

Jesús Posadas of the AEMA association fears a drop of between 150,000 to 180,000 t by the end of the year