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Design: Industrial form and natural material in balance
(September 2012) A book describes the works of product designer Raffaello Galiotto for Lithos Design Company
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(September 2012) A showroom of a different kind by Appartamento Lago Company
Architecture: Weather and time help fashion façade
(September 2012) US-College uses reclaimed marble to clad new buildings. Architects dispense with cosmetic polishing of surfaces
Markets: Marble for the miniature battlefield
(September 2012) France‘s Bibracte Museum uses natural stone for miniature models of battle sites dating back to the Caesarian war against the Gauls
Design: Bringing the outside in
(September 2012) Chinese designers emulate a natural landscape in stone and synthetic material in a high-rise apartment complex
Art: The financial crisis and the shock of Fukushima
Japanese artist Hirotoshi Ito presents contemporary themes in a tongue-in-cheek combination of materials
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(September 2012) Reopening of a quarry near Carcassonne is the theme of a Pierre Actual Magazine article
Architecture: Keeping positive energy flowing
(August 2012) The price of building with natural stone: a Feng-Shui-restaurant in Miami, a shop-house in Bangkok and company headquarters in India
Design: Let there be light… or power
(August 2012) Italian company developed synthetic stones that double as lights or solar cells
„We’re alive and that’s what counts!“
Budri Company took up production again merely one month after the Emilia-Romagna-earthquake, May 29th