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Brazil’s natural stone exports 2016: more turnover, less profit
There seem to be a worldwide overproduction of granite and marble causing prices to plummet
Euroroc-members visited the Xiamen Trade Fair
25 representatives of natural stone trade organizations accepted an invitation to China
Marble vases like children’s paper cut-outs
Designer Moreno Ratti uses his „Recisi“ Collection to refer to play experiences capable of changing our world
Briefly noted
„Vaseguy“ (pun intended!) is the nickname a Canadian artist was given by visitors to a local West Coast handicrafts market where he was selling his natural stone vases
Italian Palazzo with modern limestone façade
Architects at MYGG play with materials like stone, glass and metal as others would play a musical instrument
Xiamen Stone Fair 2017: Significant growth in foreign visitors
10 % decline in exhibitors from abroad / Brazilian „Samba“ team again winner of the Lundhs football tournament
Natural stone for kitchen countertops: don’t be afraid of color and structure
Strasser Steine Company of Austria has chosen unusual types of stone produced in limited quantities for their collection „Supreme“
Purapietra: „Textures 3.0“ helps classic natural stone structures attain new heights
The creations can more fittingly be categorized as art rather than as industrial design according to the Italian-based company
Turkey: Exports plummet by (-)5.26% by value in 2016
The Government has earmarked financial assistance in amount of a whopping 40 million Lira (almost 11 million US-$; 10,16 million €)
„Tadao“ from Lake Constance instead of a „Lazy Susan“: a dining table with an integrated Chinese-style revolving mid-section platform
Draenert Company combines an element of Asian culinary culture with state-of-the-art German mechanism