Architecture news / Archive»
- Call for architects to develop ideas about “Living Upon the Play”
- Swedish textile patterns as mosaic pavement on the Hagatorget in Karlstad
Design news / Archive»
- Cattelan Italia: glass with the appearance of onyx or marble for table tops or furniture
- Call for ideas for luxury products using glass and glass fiber together with tiny artificial diamonds
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Consumption by US citizens fell significantly in the second quarter of 2020
- China’s foreign trade seems to be recovering from the Covid 19 pandemic
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Initiators from Italy are planning a new fair called “Stone America” co-located with the KBIS in Orlando and simultaneously from February 09 to 11, 2021
- Xiamen Stone Fair postponed to 2021
Stone Stories»
- Plato’s cubes, California coast’s surface sinking, the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow in the deep North Atlantic, and the last ice age
- New construction of the Albula Tunnel in the Swiss Alps: at 1192 m driving, the rock is like a “paste and floating” at 21 m
Art news / Archive»
- James Brunt: Land-Art with wonderful geometries from small elements of nature such as leaves, sticks and stones
- Exhibition „En Passant“ about the influence of impressionism on the art of sculpting
Briefly noted»
Design news / Archive
Cattelan Italia: glass with the appearance of onyx or marble for table tops or furniture
The furnishing industry goes beyond the pure imitation of natural stone and has its designers create new “rocks” by hand
Call for ideas for luxury products using glass and glass fiber together with tiny artificial diamonds
Industrial design wanted / The prize for the winner is € 4000, option rights of € 2000 for the purchase of other entry’s license
Dellostudio: dancing vases for dried plants
The designers Oscar Piccolo und Charlotte Taylor have created decorative everyday objects for the Italian company Mondo Marmo Design
“Spirit” by Schullin Company is a lunar crescent made of onyx which carries a secret message
The Austrian jewellery manufacturer has taken up the sentence “Protect me from what I want” by the artist Jenny Holz
At the stone fair in Vitoria the exhibition “Brazilian Stones Original Design” was shown once again
The aim of the presentation of artistic objects was to demonstrate the beauty and diversity of the country’s stones and to find new uses for the material
Zanettin develops novel gabions that are more than just rectangular wire baskets filled with pebbles
Garden walls and slope supports have now become a playing field for architects and designers
Pure Talents Contest at imm Cologne 2021: chances for young talents working in the field of furniture to show their ideas to the world
In the LivingKitchen Selection in coming January, also concepts and objects for the wide range of cooking at home will be awarded
New from Promemoria: lamps by designer Romeo Sozzi from 2013
In Corona-times, the Italian company with the motto “Beyond Luxury” has relaunched an ancient collection
The “Nenou” upholstered furniture collection includes serving trays with a special shape, which prevent sliding
The Swiss product designer Jörg Boner and the German furniture company Cor were inspired by water lilies
