Architecture news / Archive»
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
- Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
Design news / Archive»
- The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design
- A reception counter like a massive stone block that can be extended to form a long table
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Ceramic tiles: joint video campaign by Italian and Spanish associations
- The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
- September topic of the Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s Product Focus: “Quarry Planet, Journey around the NEW Quarries”
Stone Stories»
- Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
- The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Art news / Archive»
- Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose
- “Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
Briefly noted»
- Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra
- TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil
The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
New World Wealth’s market researchers, together with Webster Pacific, have conducted a new study to find out where the rich and super-rich there prefer to live
The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Scientists from New York University simulated the chemical and mechanical processes
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The famous World Ocean Floor Panorama, published in 1977, was based on Marie Tharp’s (1920-2006) work in global seabed mapping
Peter’s Corner: Italy’s natural stone exports declined by (-)5.3% in 2019 after value for the 4th year in succession and that is also the repercussion of persistent marketing failures
The country’s stone sector presents itself with Haute Couture alone – the Prêt-à-Porter is completely missing and left over to the competitors
In the US, private demand for natural stone seems to have increased in the last months
In its newsletter, the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) states that “the average homeowner has decided to put their money to work in their own backyard”
French company Ateliers Zelij launches a new collection with stone and terrazzo
Designer Samir Mazer with origin in Morocco plays with geometric shapes and combines
this time stone, marble and full-mass terrazzo from Portugal
Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
The architects of Artı3 Mimarlık wanted to respect the residential buildings and the natural landscape around them
Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
The designers of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos have made the marble optically very light and avoid monoliths dominating the picture
EMIB President Mevlüt Kaya: “Towards added value through design, but still no renunciation of block exports, because otherwise that market will be lost to Iran”
The online issue of Turkish Stone World magazine also mentions the slump in exports from January to June 2020
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