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“Quarry” is the coming theme in Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s “Product Focus”

Each month, brands and products from 10 to 20 exhibitors will be highlighted in special online presentations

Science: the role of trouts in sediment transport in rivers, rivers shifting their beds due to climate change, monitoring the eruptions of a Guadeloupe volcano, and cremation since 7000 BC

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

Best product design: Lundhs from Norway makes bookends from Norwegian Larvikite

At last, a design appropriate to the material: the weight of the objects guarantees the desired function, the appearance underlines the great age and naturalness of the stone

Fortaleza Brazil Stone Fair postponed to November 2021

“Connections”: more than 80 examples of contemporary craft online at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery

The objects celebrate craft with different media from the 1930s and highlight the interconnectivity of various objects

“Marble Patterns” by Del Savio 1910: a beautiful game with simple geometric shapes, different colors, marble and terrazzo

The family business brings together geometric elements of stone and fills the spaces between them with cement mass

[kunstwerk] krastal: Sculpture symposium and events in the coming weeks

The Austrian art association sent us the following information about its sculpture symposium (July 17 – August 18, 2020) in the city of Völkermarkt in Carinthia, Austria

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

The Hungarian city of Egerszalók is famous for its sinter terraces, which were created by drilling for oil. In 1961, a reservoir of warm water was found in the depth, and it could not be resealed

Laser melting of moon dust and building the “Moon Village” by 3D printing

Researchers from Hanover, Germany have proven that an earthly imitation of Regolith can be liquefied by laser / Tests on the moon with real material planned for 2021

The enigmatic sculptor of the “Barbus Müller” finally unmasked

An exhibition at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva brings together the mysterious sculptures with indigenous art worldwide and documents the investigation to identify the French creator