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Buildings made of solid stone also offer new design options for the façades

The material with its great thickness makes 3D ornaments or reliefs in an infinite range possible

DIETFURT DOLOMITE® (Wachenzeller), a robust and rustic limestone with a Mediterranean appeal but resistant to frost and de-icing salts, quarried in Bavaria by Franken-Schotter

DIETFURT LIMESTONE GALA BEIGE, suitable for exterior paving in freeze-thaw conditions, quarried in Bavaria, Germany, by Franken-Schotter

Casa Mosaico de Belas Artes in Portugal, designed by the interior architects of Ippolito Fleitz

The exclusive home serves as both a private retreat and an open stage for the residents

After many years of growth, natural stone consumption in Germany fell sharply in 2023 (-19.1%)

The DNV association does not expect a trend reversal in the construction industry until 2025

In its 2024 collection, Lithea and its designers are looking at the reefs in the Mediterranean and down to the floor of the ocean

Elena Salmistraro and the creatives at Martinelli Venezia Studio have once again been inspired by the “Mare Nostrum”

SCHWEINSTAL SANDSTONE, a buntsandstein with a wide range of colors quarried by Carl Picard Natursteinwerk in Germany

KYKNOS WHITE, KYKNOS VEINS, and KYKNOS FLORAL, varieties of a white marble quarried near Thessaloniki, by Greek company Nordia Marbles

How local limestone was smoothed into slabs on the island of Öland for wealthy citizens’ houses around the Baltic Sea

In “scouring trips,“ the surfaces of the large tiles were worked using animal or wind power

“Solace“ is the name of a 650-square-meter villa in Southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert with interior redesign by JSF Design Inc. using stone from Antolini®