Architecture news / Archive»
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
- Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
Design news / Archive»
- French company Ateliers Zelij launches a new collection with stone and terrazzo
- Riluc is a Portuguese manufacturer of design furniture, sometimes using natural stone
Markets: Selling Stone»
- The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
- Peter’s Corner: Italy’s natural stone exports declined by (-)5.3% in 2019 after value for the 4th year in succession and that is also the repercussion of persistent marketing failures
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
- September topic of the Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s Product Focus: “Quarry Planet, Journey around the NEW Quarries”
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»
- “Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
- Central Park has its first monument depicting “real” women (and persons of color) to commemorate the ratification-centennial of the Amendment, which gave women the right to vote
Briefly noted»
Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
The designers of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos have made the marble optically very light and avoid monoliths dominating the picture
EMIB President Mevlüt Kaya: “Towards added value through design, but still no renunciation of block exports, because otherwise that market will be lost to Iran”
The online issue of Turkish Stone World magazine also mentions the slump in exports from January to June 2020
“Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
As an example: Jessie Carillo, Manager of adult programs at the DMA, speaks about Claude Monet’s “The Seine at Lavacourt” (1880)
In the case of the new type of wooden bridge by Aachen University of Applied Sciences, the stone slabs on the carriageway also provide rain protection for the load-bearing beams
The construction thus achieves a long service life and, due to the natural building materials, the best CO2 results
Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
Companies can create their own presentations, upload information about projects and products / Contributions from Marmomac Academy offer stone-learning for architects, designers
Science: bubbles of molten rock rising to the surface in the earth’s mantle, a dinosaur with another fossil in its stomach, the age of our planet’s solid inner core, water on the Earth
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics
Riluc is a Portuguese manufacturer of design furniture, sometimes using natural stone
The company comes from the metalworking industry and focuses on stainless steel with various coatings
Mophradat: call for artists only from Lebanon with projects about self-organization from there
The budget for project ranges from US-$ 2000 to US-$ 6000 / Deadline for applications is October 01, 2020
September topic of the Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s Product Focus: “Quarry Planet, Journey around the NEW Quarries”
After registration, the virtual fair gives access to company videos, stone presentations and technical details, and more
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Italian Salvatori Company has a large collection of so-called „Home Accessoires”, items made of stone which have a household function and also serve for decoration
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