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Jaime Hayon explores color through hand blown glass and marble in ChromaticO exhibition

Following his first solo exhibition at Galerie Kreo in 2015, Jaime Hayon presents ChromaticO, a new collection for the gallery that explores color and its ability to...

The Marble Sculptor Who Quietly Created a Trove of Art in Her Manhattan Loft

Hoisting 20,000 pounds of marble (twice the weight of a killer whale) into a sixth-floor Manhattan loft is no easy feat. But artist Hanna Eshel didn’t...

Alasdair Thomson: When Fashion Transforms Marble

It is well-known that marble is both a timeless and trendy material: and it is not wrong to talk about trends while referring to...

How Artists Use Natural Stone to Create Timeless Sculptures

The beauty and versatility of natural stone are among the many reasons homeowners and builders gravitate to the material for their projects. Artists often...

Natural Stone Institute Announces 2018 Pinnacle Award Winners

The winners of the 2018 Pinnacle Awards were announced during the Natural Stone Institute Awards Ceremony at TISE 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. Fourteen...

Curved marble exists – and it makes for stunning interiors

What's the secret to curved cave walls and intricate floating tables that are unmistakably marble to the touch?  Marble has been used for millennia as...

Angelo Mangiarotti never actively practiced product design per se but he was an excellent...

Form alone was what drove him; functionality was secondary, almost negligibleAgapecasa Company introduced its „Mangiarotti Collection“, for which 11 design objects were chosen from...

The second day of Architects Talks as part of the exhibition “The Architect Show”...

The second day of The Architects Talk, on Sunday, December 12 at the Metropolitan Expo, will begin with a great tribute to the materials....

In Italy, Art Becomes Reality

For centuries the craftspeople of Pietrasanta have translated artists’ ideas into marble and bronze. Franco Cervietti carved his first full-size copy of Michelangelo’s “David” when...

Korean designers create products with marble stone waste, and teach a lesson in reduce,...

Hea-Kyoung and Jung-Ki, the designers of FICT Studio are doing some ‘mar-ble-ous’ work in Seoul, South Korea. Their idea for the new furniture series...