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Stone+tec 2022 will have three main thematic areas: “Build with Natural Stone”, “Equipment for Professionals” and “Place of Remembrance” accompanied by a congress

The fair will take place from June 22 to June 25 as usual at Nuremberg Exhibition Centre

Miscellaneous: ideas all around rock and natural stone

The city of Helsinki has started the renovation of the Finlandia hall, well-known also for its marble facade and interior decoration with natural stone

GRIGIO ALPI®, a varitey of Pietra di Vicenza with macrofossils, from Italian Grassi Pietre company

Application open for the woodcarving symposium in Brienz, Switzerland, from July 09 to 15, 2022

The venue is the quay of Lake Brienz (Brienzersee) / Accommodation fully covered by the organizer, but participants have to pay their travel expenses

The Via Appia from Roman times provides evidence of the excellent eco-balance of natural stone as a surface for paths and squares

The German Natural Stone Association (DNV) has presented a study on external paving, which is also available in English for the worldwide sector to download free of charge

Blue agate and stainless steel give the Iris Bar in the new Hyatt Regency at Zurich Airport a “luminous and memorable“ image

The counter was designed by Prisma, an Italian company for professional kitchens

Product design using natural stone (3): the sector needs to move away from the sculptors’ way of working and move towards design WITH stone

Everyday products FROM stone are in many cases too heavy and therefore sell at best as unique pieces

The South of Greek Naxos island also was an important area for marble quarrying in antiquity

Geoarchaeologist Scott Pike of Willamette University found tucked-away sites where the stone for an Apollo statue on Delos came from

Examples of natural stone in furniture construction could be seen again at the FuoriSalone in Milan

Despite the pandemic, many design ideas were presented outside the Salone del Mobile fair in the city center

PIETRA PIASENTINA, “a material that is liked“, by Italian company Julia Marmi