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Photo shooting for Laura Aparicio at Grassi Pietre’s factory
Maybe the fashion label’s art director was allured by the contrast of the stone hardness and the softness of clothes and fabrics
Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in part caused by Indonesian volcano Tambora’s eruption, scientist says
Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth’s atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather
Stone people: An Italian with a suitcase full of stone samples calling on customers in the USA
Guido Bissi, a name with high reputation in Brazil’s stone branch, was honored posthumously at the Fortaleza Brazil Stone Fair (FBSF)
Granite crystallizes at a temperature 200 degrees lower than previously thought
Finding challenges long-held assumptions about common material in continental crusts
Book „Marmo 4.0“: how the time-honored natural stone became a modern building material
The book describes works of the famous Italian Designer Raffaello Galiotto, which caused admiration at Marmomac’s Italian Stone Theatre
Natural Stone Institute Releases Quarrier Toolbox Talks
Exams and 10 documents outlining best practices to maintain health and safety of quarriers are available for free
Photographer Scott Smith captures the gradual metamorphosis to stone and adds artistic changes of his own
He calls his work „homages to materiality and the ephemeral nature of light“
The Alps grow an average of 1.8 mm in height and move to the northeast at a speed of up to 1.3 mm
For the first time, a computer model illustrates the dynamics of the mountains from the Maritime Alps all the way to Slovenia
Miscellanous: ideas with natural stone
„Gioielli“ (or gem) is the name Pietra di Luca Company gave its limestone jewelry
„View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection“ in the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Some of the pictures show spectacular stone formations which were used in campaigns for state parks