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The five sculptures from the Rhineland-Palatinate 2023 Sculpture Symposium have been erected in the vast landscape around Kaiserslautern

“Peace and democracy“ was the motto of the monumental works made of local red sandstone or steel

Swedish Natural Stone Award 2023: a kitchen island with the house around it, a villa with a façade made of stone from the quarry next door, a square with slabs and cobblestones around, and a model of a natural park made of diabase

Italian Ceramic Industry’s magazine “Cer“ (#68) reports about reducing energy consumption with ventilated facades

Peter‘s Corner: What could it mean for Brazil‘s stone branch that the trade fair in Vitória is being shifted to São Paulo by its owner Veronafiere and given the new name “Marmomac Brazil“?

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

Michelangelo‘s secret room at the Museum of the Medici Chapels in Florence will remain open for the public until the end of June 2024

PITAYA exotic granite, a stone named after the Southern designation of the Dragon Fruit, quarried in Brazil’s state of Espírito Santo by Vitória Stone company

News from the natural stone sector’s competitors: The induction hob from Gaggenau entirely disappears in the countertop made of Cosentino‘s Dekton engineered stone

Sal Orlando likes to assemble his small stone figures from colored stones with strong veins

The Californian artist follows an unusual path for sculptors

NSI Announces 2023 Scholarship Recipients: Joanne Bish for the Women in Stone Empowerment, Frances Alderson, Tiffany Biagi, and Robert McCoy for the Natural Stone Scholarship

New in our calendar of trade fairs for design / lifestyle: events for consumer goods und gifts

Increasingly, producers of beautiful little things made of natural stone are exhibiting at such fairs