Stone tables with design inspired by water forms
"Polo Sciolto", Luca Facchini / INTERMAC
A new vision for the natural stone industry
Published in April, 2019
Anil Taneja,
The Italian Stone Theatre – Marmomac Verona, 2018
"Water and Stone- Dialogue between water and stone", is the theme of the 2018 edition of the annual Marmomac fair held in Verona( Italy). In this exhibition, well known designers, in collaboration with Italian stone and machinery companies, get together to display projects in stone elaborated using the latest technologies.
German stone market in 2018
1. The German stone market logistics remains a wholesaler dominated one, controlled by around 15 companies. These companies have superbly organised logistics and are able to distribute even the smallest of orders of slabs to as many as a dozen stonemasons with a single truck.
Who is doing well in the Natural Stone industry in 2018?
Published in August, 2018
Those who are currently doing well or relatively well.
German Natural Stone Award 2018
The German awards for Natural Stone are organised by the Stone Association( DNV) in collaboration with Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA.
Stone Infinite - Product Design Show, Xiamen 2018
During the last edition of the Xiamen Stone fair, from 6 to 9 March 2018, simultaneously an exhibition” Stone Infinite-Product Design Show” was held with the objective of highlighting how natural stone could be used to create products of domestic use without excluding the design element, but also without forgetting that the functionality of an object should remain the main objective and, therefore, the appearance should be subject to the limitations of functionality.
Exports and imports of natural stone of Brazil in 2017- a summary
Export turnover
Exports of Brazilian ornamental rocks and diverse products amounted to US$ 1.107 billion and 2.36 million tons in 2017. These figures mean a 2.74% decline in turnover and a 4.10% decline in physical volume as compared to the year 2016. Processed stone accounted for 80.45% of the total in 2017, similar to the figure of 80.15% in 2016.
Average price
International Architecture Contest ARCHISTONE 2017
During the fair "Beautiful Houses.Russian Architectural Salon", "Interior Salon" and "Stone Salon", that took place in October 2017, an International Competition for Architects, ARCHISTONE, was introduced. In this competition, organised by the publishing house Beautiful Houses with the support of the Union of Architects of Russia and Union of Architects of Moscow, several projects were presented.
