Miguel Fabregues
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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?
Facades of natural stone show remarkable energetic advantages in comparison with glass facades. This is the result of an extensive study that compares facades of natural stone and glass.
PEDESTAL DE LA LLOTJA DE LA MARE DE DÉU. Temple Sagrada Familia, Barcelona (Spain)
MARBRES CASTELL, Ulldecona (Tarragona), Spain
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.
It is so easy for us to think that the machinery used for cutting stone in the industry are all modern inventions, and as for how stone was cut and processed in the distant past, ah, well, who cares ?... Some simple contraption, of course, would be a generalised assumption.
For most of the natural stone industry Cataluña is usually considered a market and few people even within the industry think of it as a significant stone producing centre or one which has its own local stones. A visitor to the elegant city of Barcelona is immediately conscious of the widespread use of a wide variety of natural stone in all kinds of applications, be they wall claddings, interiors, or public squares. But yes, there is a local industry too and there are actually some local stones with possibilities not only in the local market but also in the wider world.
Today's homeowner has so many choices for their kitchen tops that it makes it so hard to choose.
As part of the Carrara Marmotec fair held from 19 to 22 May, 2010 held in the Italian city of Carrara, the exposition "Pezzi al Forte" was held. Nine young designers from Liguria (Italy) presented new prototypes of urban furniture in stone. The sample tries to make visible the perfect union between design, innovation and its practical usage.
“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.
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.)
Trade statistics of Turkey´s natural stone industry, being highly exported oriented, help to understand the dynamism of the markets for stone all over the world. We publish the exports figures for 2009.
