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The marbles of King Louis XIV’s sumptuous decor at the palace in Versailles

The book titled „Marbles of Occitania“ sheds a new light on the natural stones and where they came from / Versions in English and French

The product design company was founded by two Bologna-based stonemason enterprises

Due to the forces of the seismic shocks, the sandy ground got liquid and engulfed all that it had carried before

Using diabase, the couple have created a collection of home furnishing items / Presented at the London Design Fair 2018 in the Swedish Pavilion

The giant statues once carved from a sandstone hill had to be cut into thousands of blocks using the quarry technology of the 1960ies

One could interpret the work of Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura as a critical rendering of the Holy See in stone

Silver for Robert Moser from Austria and Bronze for Krisztián Balogh from Hungary / Participants from 6 other countries

A fairy-tale pedestrian crossing with natural stone was constructed in Småland’s city of Jönköping in the South of Sweden

Architect Jean Nouvel lets a flood of dappled light rain down on the Museum’s interior / Pietra di Luserna covers the floor

Most were caused by construction, illegal hillcutting and illegal mining often combined with heavy rainfall