Micellaneous: ideas with natural stone

Ring Grips with super-thin stone “so you don’t drop your phone” is how Mikol Marmi describes its newest product

Marmomac 2020: 10 international designers re-interprete marble by forming the age-old and eternal material with young and modern technologies

Shown will be sculptural furniture and unexpected objects as well as essential and minimal shapes or ideas focusing on the stone’s veins and colors

Application open until May 17, for “Sculpture by the Sea” in Bondi near Sydney, Australia from October 22 through November 08, 2020

Due to the Covid-19-situation, the organizers “welcome applications from artists who wish to exhibit sculptures shown previously” / Awards and subsidies

For Australian Residents: application open for the Lester Prize for portraits until July 10 (Adult) or July 24 (Youth) respectively

Italy’s natural stone industry officially comes out of the shutdown on May 04, 2020

Many companies had already been back in business for a week and completed interrupted orders / Follow-up projects have been postponed or canceled altogether

Chen Guoqing: „China’s economy is expected to return to its normal growth rate in the third quarter of 2020”

In last decade, the country has consumed about 90% of its natural stone volume each year on the home market, according to the president of China’s national stone association CSMA, exports accounted only for 10%

Thanks to its quartzites, Brazil seems to be coming out of the valley of tears for the first time since 2013

The country’s stone industry recorded an increase in exports of almost (+)2% in 2019, while Brazil’s total exports fell by (-)6.8%

U.S. Geological Survey releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon

Researchers merged new and old data from Apollo and recent satellite missions to develop a unified description of the stratigraphy, or rock layers, of our nearest neighbor in space

A „Lithic Fabric” in ivy keeps heat out but lets light in

Professor Giuseppe Fallacara from the Polytechnic University of Bari uses natural stone for an innovative façade cladding