Architecture news / Archive»
- Building quickly and cost-effectively: edifices made entirely of small blocks of natural stone are popular in France
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
Design news / Archive»
- Side table “Admeto” by Visionnaire: Marco Piva creates something completely new with a natural stone cladding
- The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Ceramic tiles: joint video campaign by Italian and Spanish associations
- The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- BAU München from January 13 to 15, 2021: an innovative concept for a “hybrid“ fair adapted to the times of Corona
- Registration for digital “Marmomac Restart” from September 30 to October 02, 2020, is open
Stone Stories»
- Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
- The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Art news / Archive»
- Paul Cocksedge’s “Slump“ tables at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London until December 18, 2020
- Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose
Briefly noted»
- Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra
- TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil
Design news / Archive
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
The chaise longue “Vellum” by Sa.Ge.Van Marmi and the designer Natascia Bascherini goes to the limit of what is possible with marble
Pure stone with a thickness of 4 cm without carrier layer or resin and only with a narrow bearing surface
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