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For the 4th time, Marble Izmir Fair organized its “Young Creative Ideas Platform“, a competition for young designers for innovative product ideas with natural stone

For the first time product design: “The Gaze Beyond“ is the title of Antolini’s capsule collection of marble tableware created by designer Alessandro La Spada

Irish Green is the material in focus but other stones are available on request

“Hug”, “Tao”, and “Kora” are Kreoo’s freestanding washbasins or bathtubs, respectively, in natural stone combining marble with with brass, bronze, and wood

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

“Atene“ is the name of the new coffee tables with marble tops by designer Luca Erba for Italian Giulio Marelli company

Main features are precious details and materials to create long-lasting objects

Greek designer Alex Mint brings together marble from the Peloponnese with sea grass from the sea around in her collection “Oceanides“

In the life expectancy of the plant of 80,000 years and the durability of the stone she brings together the really big periods of time

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

John Pawson designs marble coffee tables for Salvatori that seem to float and take center stage in any room

“Omphalos“ (navel of the world) from Greek mythology is the name of the collection

In the Danish city of Billund, there is a playground called “Play Contract“, where children and adults are supposed to come together around objects made of pink marble

The project in LEGO City aims to encourage generations to play together

The Belgian artist duo Studio DŌ plays in its creations with the two sides of the stones, which are raw block and sculpture

The small block is used to store a piece of jewelry created from the same material

“Gothenburg floor“ as a trademark for the redesign of a shopping center in the Swedish city

Architectural firm Sweco and sculptor Pål Svensson intersperse the granite slabs with spread brass strips containing civic data

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Paolo Ulian has now developed his concept called “Drap“ further for containers such as vases

For the design, he uses the – actually undesirable – fluttering of the water jet that occurs when thicker materials are to be cut

Table lamp “Riso“ by Studio Revolution: lamp base made of onyx and shade in the style of the straw hats of Asian rice farmers

Milanese designer Roberto Bellantoni aims for a “functional aesthetic,“ that is, distinctive shapes and high usability at the same time

Lapicida’s Gramercy Park Collection echoes the geometry of the buildings in Manhattan and a little of the exclusivity of some residential neighborhoods there

The British company has released marble tiles with a straightforward design for that special style