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Gerard Kuijpers’ art objects focus on the materials rather than the shapes of the objects

The Belgian artist gives stone, steel, glass, and wood functions that are not normally known from them

The Stone+tec (June 22 – 25, 2022) in Nuremberg presents itself as International Competence Forum for Natural Stone and Stone Technology

The new Elephant Springs water playground in London’s Southwark district brings outdoor romping into the city center for kids

The facility was designed with porphyry from northern Italy

TERRA GRAY, a micritic limestone with bright veins, clouds and waves on a homogenous grey background from Turkish Silkarstone company

Marmomacchine Magazine (#277) has a report about Antolini’s new Showroom next to the Milan Cathedral

For the new altar of the Hedwiskathedrale in Berlin, the faithful of the diocese can contribute small stones

The artist Leo Zogmayer wants to create a massive semicircle from them and symbolically bind the community together in its diversity

During the 2022 Bond Events-Five Star held in The Bahamas, Brazilian exporters introduced the large variety of their natural stones to about 50 senior professionals of architects and interior designers

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Slate rings from hunter-gatherers in northeast Europe 6000 years ago may have served for social relations between distant Stone-Age communities

The Lincoln Memorial in the U.S. capital was dedicated 100 years ago

The many domestic natural stones in the building in the shape of a Greek temple symbolize the unity of the nation

Solid (massive) building with small blocks of stone: in Lyon, the architects of the Gilles Perraudin studio have built a FabLab to promote young craftsmen

One of the goals of the client, a master carpenter, was to give more value to the natural materials of wood and stone

Marble LASA VENATO®, mined at 1,565 m in the Italian Alps, particularly hard and pressure-resistant due to a twofold metamorphosis in its formation

The Natural Stone Institute has published the spring 2022 issue of its Building Stone Magazine

The Belgian designer Koen Van Guijze nimbly walks the line between art and product design with his lamps

For “Book“ he packs the light source in a kind of protective box (slipcase) and lets a kind of enlightenment fall out of the interior

Natural Stone Institute: Spanish language translations of popular safety and membership resources now available

A new webpage gives easy access to free safety resources, including downloadable documents, toolbox talks, course bundles in the Natural Stone University, and more

In the virtual showroom of the furniture company Draenert individual tours or demonstrations of the extension tables are also possible

However, the 3D offer is only a fishing rod, which is designed from a distance and is meant to awaken the customer’s desire for a real visit to the factory