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US demand for decorative tile is forecast to increase 3.5% annually to 3.1 billion square feet in 2020
Shares of porcelain and natural stone will grow but ceramics remain dominant / Italian companies are market leaders in high-end-products
Laboratorio del Marmo: „Samurai“ and „Shiodome“ – new tables on stone foundations
Italian design studio sees objects as functional sculptures
A prize for designers who bring natural stone and consumer electronics together
Call for submissions for the UX Design Award of the Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin
Stone sculptors’ symposia scheduled for the months ahead in 2016
High times for hammer and chisel
Vitória Stone Fair: No sign of recession in Brazil
Grupo Mineração Corcovado Brasigran shows art using „Superexóticos“ / Design by Ludson Zampirolli
Xiamen Stone Fair (1): China’s stone branch discovers marble and granite as materials for detailed design
Recession in China’s big-building industry is counterbalanced by a building boom for private villas
Briefly noted
Bedrock formations erode in time, as is a well-known fact. Not common knowledge but now proven by a group of scientists as reported in Nature Geoscience
Draenert: Highlight „Fontana“ and novelties „Lauro“ and „Twin“
German company renowned for its exclusive designer-furniture will be presenting its wares in Hall 7 Stand M26 of this year’s Salone del Mobile
Zaha Hadid: also with stone she was avant-garde and futuristic
The British-Iraqi architect brought concrete and also marble to new designs
Euroroc News (1/16): Emotions as a tool to promote natural stone
Professor Gerd Merke, General Secretary: Stone sector should point out that its material is „true, native and 100% natural“