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After 16 years of renovation, La Samaritaine in Paris can once again be experienced as a temple of consumerism

The facades facing the Seine are striking, with magnificent natural stone decor in Art Nouveau echoing the Second Empire and Baron Haussmann

Three Natural Stone Institute awards to women (“in a male dominated industry“): Barbara Cohen (Lifetime Achievement), Brie Pfannenbecker (Women in Stone Pioneer), and Katie Jensen (Person of the Year)

A geological carpet in Belgium shows the layers of stone from 540 million years of the earth’s history

“Geological Wall“ (Mur géologique) is the title of the new attraction, which is almost finished near the village of Comblain-au-Pont about 30 km from Liège

“Sten“ magazine (2/2021 )presents the nominations for the Swedish Natural Stone Award 2021

Science news: balanced rocks for earthquake assessment, 9000-year-old obsidian tools, the height of the ‘Roof of the World’, footprints of the last dinosaurs to walk on UK soil

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

Spain’s natural stone sector comes through the pandemic year 2020 with almost no decline in exports

Around two-thirds of deliveries are semi-finished or processed material / Most important target country is France, followed by the UK, the USA and Germany

Are art and culture not different from consumption and commerce? is the real question in a farce in the Moselle town of Traben-Trarbach in Germany

The dispute is about the local tourism fee which stone local sculptor Jürgen Waxweiler refuses to pay

Villa in Tuscany: for each of the 6 bathrooms a different stone with a different finish

The architects who carried out the natural stonework are from Studio Zeno Pucci, Laperla Marmi

MOHEDA BLACK DIABASE (Moheda svart diabas) from Hallindens Granit company, stone of the year 2021 in Sweden

Rolling Stones (“Pedras Rolantes“) in the Portuguese way in the pavement of the city of Évora

The artist Bernardo Bagulho creates faces and masks from leftover pieces from a sculpture center and thus sets charming accents on paths and squares