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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
Brazil’s stone exports 2023: by value -13.4% compared to the previous year, yet still above the magic US$ 1 billion mark
Probably, also the other big export countries will have negative balance sheets in 2023, as one could already guess from the quarterly figures
Bertrand Iribarren elected new President of the French stone association SNROC
He will focus on “democratizing“ French natural stone to the public and emphasizing the material‘s low carbon footprint
Neal Barab: a sculptor from California in Pietrasanta at the foot of the White Marble Mountains
The influence of his father, who worked for the toy company Mattel, is unmistakable in Neal’s current works
The city of Bern has once again awarded its biennial prize for exemplary gravestones in terms of craftsmanship and artistry
The aim of the campaign is to “promote individually designed gravestones as an important part of the mourning process“
