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Best of 2018: Product design with natural stone
The editors of Stone-Ideas.com have compiled articles and reports with the most clicks in 2018
This year’s Xiamen World Stone Congress takes place in Hall B2 where the BRICS meeting had been held in 2017
Topics will be, among others: alleged radiation from granite, green quarrying, product design with stone / Exhibition „Stone Infinite“ and „New Product Launch“
Temple of deity Xipe Tótec found in Mexico: eerie religious ceremonies
To reproduce the way a maize kernel opens its outer skin before sprouting, victims were skinned in a ritual after having been killed
David F Wilson: one who took it upon himself to seek creative ideas for the stone branch
The Scottish sculptor traveled to North America on a scholarship in search of „Contemporary Use of Stone in Urban Spaces“
Questions answered about the orientation of the „Chinese Pyramids“ made of rammed earth
Some of them point to the celestial pole, others to the star to which the pole would be approached in the future (seen from that time): Polaris
Stones from the board game Go serve as an installation in front of Vienna’s famous Herrengasse high-rise
An unobtrusive modern monument to commemorate the triumph of computers over the world master game board player makes reference to the building
In Bauhaus style: Designer Chris Basias was inspired by Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet when drafting his suspended lamp collection
The characteristic elements of the design are clear geometric shapes: cubes, disks, or cones with an imaginary line drawn by the wire
Guidoni Group: the many shades of white in natural stone and quartz composite
The Brazilian company starts the new year „with powerful personality striking designs“
Slam dunk: US basketball player lends an arm to the restoration of an ancient statue
3-D scanning of Wyatt Walker’s arm to be used as model for new addition to the Statue of Bacchus in the North Carolina Museum of Art