Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

News from the Elgin marbles: A robot-made copy of the head of Selen’s horse in the British Museum is on show at the Freud museum in London. It was produced by the Institute of Digital Archaeology at the University of Oxford

Almaart Studio brings out the hidden images from exotic stones and makes them disappear again between veins and colors

“The hidden art of nature“ is the product slogan of two artists from near New York City

New in our Stone Finder: The Warche Shistose Sandstone quarried by Belgian Nelles-Frères company is very hard, and its wide color range from rusty to gray and blue allows beautiful material combinations

Ceramics trade fair Cersaie 2022: Plant motifs for wall tiles were presented at a conspicuously large number of stands

Sustainability was the defining theme everywhere, natural stone copies or large formats only made a marginal appearance

Marmomac 2022: photo gallery

We show photos of some of the booths and of some product ideas from this year’s Marmomac.

Young designers from Ukraine showed works at Marmomac 2022 with which they addressed the situation of their country during the war

For the fair, they had made art objects and objects for everyday use, respectively

Natural Stone Institute Publishes First Industry-Wide Environmental Product Declarations and Health Product Declarations for Natural Stone

Dr. Carlo Montani: the global natural stone sector has also come through the Covid-19 pandemic with flying colors and is looking to a rosy future

By 2025, the old master of numbers expects consumption to quadruple compared to 1996

GRAY UKRAINE, a bright granite from the Pokostivske Deposit in the Zhytomyr region, quarried by TD Kometa company

The strength of the natural stone sector is reflected in the exhibitor and visitor numbers at Marmomac 2022 despite the many current crises

For the first time, the fair put a “green“ label on itself