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Italian Antolini company: “exclusive natural stones transform an ordinary bedroom into a unique and exclusive environment”

The company has a long tradition in marketing its stones by showing them in application

10th All India Stone Architecture Awards (2): in the Commendations there were exceptional ideas for the use of natural stone or the conversion of former quarries as well

10th All India Stone Architecture Awards (1): Natural stone as a sustainable and decorative building material was a central theme in many award-winning projects

The winners are presented biannually at the India Stonemart trade fair in Jaipur

Calcitic marble HERMELIN, dark blue-grey with white veins, quarried north of the polar circle by Norwegian Fauske marble by Moser company

The archived issues of the Building Stone Magazine are available for download from the Natural Stone Intitute‘s webpage

The “Corker“ by Herzog & de Meuron is now also available in marble

The furniture brand ClassiCon has given the stool or side table a new material

Beautiful little things made of natural stone as (Christmas)gifts

Some companies have discovered the market niche with items for everyday use and decoration

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

A web page tells the story: “Farmers had painstakingly picked rocks out of the soil to clear space to grow olive trees and grapevines

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) invites artists-scientists to apply for a one-week residency in April in Vienna to create a week during the organization’s General Assembly

Swiss award for pedestrian traffic “Flâneur d’Or“: ideas that make pedestrians’ journeys pleasant, easy, and even beautiful

The Association for Pedestrian Traffic awards prizes to projects that focus on getting around without a car