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Joe Doucet: Natural stone furniture ready for assembly
New York designer creates highly functional marble coffee tables
EPD: A certification as proof of natural stone’s strength
The new Environmental Product Declaration allows effective and direct ecological comparison of various building materials
Premio Fondazione Henraux: testing the boundaries of marble sculpting
The prize endows outstanding works made exclusively of marble sculpting
Middle East Stone: a new natural stone trade fair in May 2015 located in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf
A spin-off of the Big5 in Dubai is expecting a sustained boom in luxury buildings in the region
WorldSkills 2015: Participation for stone masons is ensured
In Brazil’s São Paulo, international craftsmen will compare skills in working natural stone
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A mysterious crater 30 cm in diameter opened on the Siberian peninsula of Yamal.
Tucker Awards: Natural stone façade with a touch of Kente Cloth
Philadelphia’s new Barnes Foundation Museum is close to the founder and, like him, seeks to distance itself from its surroundings
Product design: Natural Stone – Electricity – Communication
Italian designers Simone Simonelli, Claudio Larcher and Filippo Protasoni let marble and everyday appliances converge in their collection by the name of „Clique“
Marmomacc 2014: extending the boundaries of natural stone
Verona’s natural stone trade fair aims to improve presentation of architecture and design among other ideas by including a show for furniture and interior design
Cersaie 2014: Trade fair also for natural stone in bathrooms
The big Bologna trade fair, formally for everything pertaining to ceramic, is now wooing representatives of other branches to exhibit their wares