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Miscellaneous

(January 2011) Cleopatra’s Needle is among the themes of Per Storemyr’s homepage

ALABAMA STONE, a limestone giving a sense of strength, permanence, and place to any design, quarried near Russelville, by Vetter Stone Company

Stone Insight: Quarrying Stone Slabs with Heat

Examples are described in the scientific literature, and the process is still known e.g. in Southern India

Touch-stones for hands and feet

Every stone trade fair experiences it time and again: A stone that is aesthetically pleasing almost magnetically attracts beholders to touch it. Could the stone branch make use of this property?

Architecture: Colourful as life itself

(December 2010) Ongoing construction of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família for over one century

Design: Message on the curb

(December 2010) „ABC-curbs“ and boulder-sinks at the Polish competition for design students

Trade Fairs: „Design in the Streets“

(December 2010) Cersaie Ceramics trade fair incorporated Bologna’s city centre as part of the exhibit grounds

The scientists in the European-funded project Quarry Scapes intend to save abandoned stone extraction sites as witnesses to human trade and civilization

Art: Surprise of the century on occasion of the 100th anniversary

(December 2010) Swiss Stone Masons’ and Sculptors’ Trade Association commissioned 100 „resting stones“ on the occasion of it’s centenary

Presents: Not in search of lost time

(December 2010) Belgian book detects right to exist for building in stone / History of the Granite of Galicia