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Design: Bringing the outside in
(September 2012) Chinese designers emulate a natural landscape in stone and synthetic material in a high-rise apartment complex
Design News (Archive)
Design: Let there be light… or power
(August 2012) Italian company developed synthetic stones that double as lights or solar cells
Design: stone tables as contrast to excitement and ephemerality
(July 2012) Italian-based Marsotto Edizioni introduces its new everyday products
Design: Kaleidoscope of colors in stone
(July 2012) Brazilian company produces multi-colored stone based on marble, granite and other types of stone
Design: Ideas for everyday products in natural stone
(July 2012) Whereas many of the natural-stone design-products shown at Verona’s Marmomacc are, in truth, works of art, Milan’s furniture trade fair exhibits true product-design pieces
Design: „Stone Drapes“
(June 2012) At the international furniture trade fair in Milan a number of new design ideas for natural stone and engineered stone were on exhibit
Design: Stitching in marble-mosaic
(May 2012) Tiles in combination with stone, metal and mother-of-pearl by China-based Heda Marble & Mosaics Company
Design: „Boiseries“ (wood inlays) in stone
(May 2012) Italian company livens up wall cladding in natural stone
New markets for the natural stone industry: product design (2)
(April 2012) Shanghai’s STONETECH trade fair (April 25th – 28th 2012) will analyze the future markets for household objects made of natural stone
Design: Material und function to the foreground
(April 2012) German-based Draenert Company introduces a minimalist side table
Design: Brazil’s modernism in wall and flooring tiles
(April 2012) Mosarte introduces a tile collection named after 20th century buildings particularly mainly from Brasília and Rio
Design: Natural stone – epidermal luxury for house and body
(March 2012) Brazilian Brasigran Company produces jewellery made of exotic granite, gold and precious stone
A new market for the stone industry: product design (1)
(March 2012) Shanghai’s STONETECH (April 25th – 28th) shows how every-day objects can be produced from natural stone
Design: The passing of time materialized in stone
(March 2012) Italian architect develops sundials suitable for public places and private gardens
Design: Newsprint in stone
(March 2012) Italian company develops a laser etching method for stone surfaces