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Design: Imaging marble as „young and modern“

(January 2011) Italian-based Decormarmi is seeking to renew the image for stone and hopes to conquer new consumers

Art: Brushstrokes in stone

(January 2011) Polish artist uses unusual technique in mosaics

Adverts

(January 2011) Xiamen-special offer: in February the economy-advertisement is on offer at a discount rate of 100 US-$ (76 €)

Miscellaneous

(January 2011) Cleopatra’s Needle is among the themes of Per Storemyr’s homepage

New in the Stone Finder: PERSIAN BLUE ONYX, with an endless and weightless color in which earth’s permanence meets the movement of light, quarried by Dayan Stone from Iran

ALABAMA STONE, a limestone giving a sense of strength, permanence, and place to any design, quarried near Russelville, by Vetter Stone Company

New in the Stone Finder: Tranås Granite, a red stone from Sweden with a deep color or a warm tone, quarried by Hallindens Granit Company in Småland

Stone Insight: Quarrying Stone Slabs with Heat

Examples are described in the scientific literature, and the process is still known e.g. in Southern India

Touch-stones for hands and feet

Every stone trade fair experiences it time and again: A stone that is aesthetically pleasing almost magnetically attracts beholders to touch it. Could the stone branch make use of this property?

Architecture: Colourful as life itself

(December 2010) Ongoing construction of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família for over one century