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Everything You Need to Know About Having a Marble Countertop

Watch any design show or flip through any home magazine, and you’re likely to see a familiar finish in a perfectly sunlit kitchen: marble countertops. Given...

Designers Imagine What Bended Marble Furniture Could Look Like

In partnership with stone specialist MM Galleri, Singapore Tatler Homes invited three studios to design furniture that features the firm's innovative bended marble technique Stone fabricator and...

Colored marble: the trend in design

While Carrara's marble has been for many years the choice of many designers because of its color purity and flexibility, a new generation of...

Robot-made tables and vases feature surface textures created using algorithms

Iraqi-born UAE-based designer Layth Mahdi debuts a series of marble vases and tables with contoured surfaces milled by robots and designed using algorithms.Launched during Dubai Design Week last month, Layth Mahdi's...

How Marble Sculptures Have Inspired Artists and Captivated Audiences for Millenia

Throughout art history, sculptors have experimented with an eclectic range of mediums. While cast bronze, carved wood, and fired clay have made lasting impressions, no material has captivated...

22 Wonderful ideas for marble decoration!

Marble is one of the most impressive and timeless materials used in home decoration. With its finesse and impeccable aesthetics, it gives the spaces...

Art exhibition pays tribute to quarries

An international photographer’s ‘fascination’ with quarries has recently been exhibited at a contemporary art gallery in the US.  Andrew Buck’s exhibition Andrew Buck: Quarry – which features...

Unusual underground hotel in an abandoned quarry in China

China once again surprises the world with their extravagant projects. A Grand hotel that goes under the earth at almost 90 meters has recently...

The UK’s only marble Michelangelo takes pride of place at new Royal Academy

Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo­—a masterpiece of his early maturity and the Royal Academy’s great artistic treasure—has moved again. The circular, unfinished marble relief of the...

Berlin new museum building made of marble and natural stone aggregates

David Chipperfield Architects’ new central entrance to the city’s Museum Island has been officially handed over to the State Museums of Berlin prior to...