How to clean natural stone in the house

Teresa González Díez (teresa.litosweb@gmail.com)

There are few people who would not like to have in their house some corner where natural stone is the main protagonist: a staircase, the floor of a living room, a chimney, the corner of the barbecue, or, more commonly, the counter-tops of a bathroom and the kitchen.

The main doubt that one often has, before installing stone in our house, is not, as many tend to think, its cost, but: how to clean it?

Selecting a Granite Kitchen Counter Top, II

Miguel Fabregues
vime@vime.com

This article follows on from our first one about choosing a granite counter-top. Here we publish another opinion on this issue- there are obviously similarities in criteria, but there can also be different sensibilities. Read on.

Would you like to put a granite counter-top in the kitchen?
One assumes the answer is “Yes”.

Is the floor of the kitchen already installed?

Sagrada Familia 2

The execution of the pedestal of the Llotja of Mare de Deu, Sagrada Familia , Barcelona (Spain)

 

Project:

PEDESTAL DE LA LLOTJA DE LA MARE DE DÉU. Temple Sagrada Familia, Barcelona (Spain)

 

Company:

MARBRES CASTELL, Ulldecona (Tarragona), Spain

 

Material:

Floresta Stone honed / bush hammered

 

The realisation of this piece, the pedestal of the Llotja of Mare de Deu, forms part of the prolonged construction of the the Sagrada Familia Temple, in Barcelona, one of the most emblematic works of Gaudí.

Chopin's heart beat in Warsaw

“This is not Chopin who needs us, we are the ones that need to warm up with the splendor of his fame and genius” – said Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, capital’s president, during the official opening  of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. The building that honors the memory of the great composer is situated in the seventeenth-century Ostrogski Castle at Tamka Street. The works lasted several years.

Granite block supply in Russia

The legal obstacles to be overcome before opening a natural stone quarry in Russia are explained. Investments will not be forthcoming without a resolution to these problems. Meanwhile the country´s stone processing factories have to rely to an increasing extent on imports. In this report*, I.O. Sinelnikov & O.B. Sinelnikov propose some practical solutions. (*This article was translated from the Russian original in Gorny Zhurnal 2009, No.3, and appears here by kind permission of the publishers and authors.)