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BLACK MARBLE OF CALATORAO (Mármol Negro de Calatorao) from Spanish Gramablack company has an intense and deep dark tone

Salone del Mobile (June 07 – 12, 2022): Plants are roommates in the modern apartment

Three prizes of €20,000 each offered for “New ideas for Carrara and its marble“

The Carrara 2030 initiative of 9 companies from the Apuan Alps wants to promote the local stones as a material for an ecological future

An exhibition at the New York City Met organized around French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux‘s famous white marble bust “Why Born Enslaved!“ (1868) looks at early American emancipation depicted in 35 artworks

Miscelleneous: ideas around natural stone

„Gemma“ is how Italian Sicis company calls its collection of ceiling lamps. The light falls through a glass emulating gems. Designer was Massimiliano Raggi

Stone+tec Congress during the trade fair in Nuremberg (June 22-25, 2022): focus on sustainability in building with natural stone and on the cemetery as a “Space for mourning“

In the virtual showrooms of the second generation, the possibilities of augmented reality will also play a role in the sale of natural stone in the future

The Turkish company Alimoğlu presented the prototype of its “Metaverse“ at the Marble Izmir 2022 trade fair

PIETRA DEL MARE, a bright straw-yellow limestone with a sedimentary matrix often including small fossils, from Italian Grassi Pietre company

In the Chinese province of Zhejiang, 9 former quarries have become a tourist attraction

The spectacular canyons and massive caves are testimony to the industrial culture of past centuries

Cosentino promotes its new Silestone as groundbreaking in sustainability: “Changing the world from the kitchen“

The campaign addresses young people and their parents using the phrasing of Fridays for Future

Stone Stackers features pieces of stone furniture designed in an “extremely instinctive and spontaneous process“

The two designers Shilpa Srinivas and Paolo Ciacci use only waste pieces of natural stone for their new brand

New calendar: Marmomac 2022 (September 27 – 30) will take place midweek from Tuesday to Friday, for the first time

As usual, the show will have a large program presenting ideas for up-to-date or even innovative usage of natural stone in architecture, product design and art

At the 2021 French Prize for Architecture with Natural Stone, buildings in solid construction were awarded

The construction method with small stone blocks is well known in France and is becoming increasingly popular in times of sustainable architecture

CALIZA CAPRI, a cream-white limestone with an elegant snow-like aspect, from Spanish Levantina group

How design principal Hana Ishikawa builds solid history with genuine natural stone (wepage Use Natural Stone by Natural Stone Institute)