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Mosaic artist Lubosz Karwat creates a work of art with Mother Earth for a gravel company in Poland

Shown is the face of a woman in her mid-twenties, but despite her youth does not look carefree

CIPPOLINO ONDULATO, an Italian marble with colors from green to red famous for book matching, quarried by Luana company in the Garfagnana mountains in Tuscany

Marmomacchine magazine (#281, April 2023) reports about Artificial Intelligence in the Verona Marble Industry

In its magazine “Versilia Produce“ (April 2023), Cosmave association reports about the project to analyze the environmental footprint of the marble district around Carrara

British stonemason and artist Beatrice Searle walked the Gudbrandsdalen Pilgrimage Trail in Norway with a “stone boat“ as hand luggage in tow and wrote a book about it

Europe has three Capitals of Culture in 2023: Elefsina (Eleusis) in Greece, Veszprém in Hungary and Timișoara in Romania

As usual, the editors of Stone-Ideas.com looked up what they have to offer in terms of natural stone

Pibamarmi, from the Italian Chiampo Valley, has realized for its new “Tailor Collection” 4 model series for washbasins and tables in 12 types of marble

Turkey recorded a sensational +18,000 % in stone exports to Saudi Arabia in 2022 compared to the previous year, and the trend is positive in other respects as well

The country has achieved considerable diversification and has turned to finished products

More “focus on the customer and his desires than on technology and stone types” is what Sweden’s largest kitchen furnisher wants from the stone sector (“Sten“ magazine, 1/2023, Swedish)

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

In 2022, British archaeologist Timothy Darvill came out with the sensational thesis that Stonehenge was a precise annual calendar, from which the exact dates for the days could be read