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Island village keeps tradition of marble sculpture alive

Yiannis Hondroyiannis knew how to use a hammer and chisel at the age of 7. “I learned all about marble and its secrets in...

Hotel & Marble: The Luxury Bathrooms

The combination of marble and hotels has always proved over time, and always in a different way, to be an effective solution to create...

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...

Karl Lagerfeld’s marble ‘architectures’ presented at New York

Beloved German fashion designer and caricaturist, Karl Lagerfeld, continues to captivate from beyond the grave with his Architectures exhibition in the US. The sculptural showcase,...

Alasdair Thomson’s amazing marble sneakers

Alasdair Thomson is a Scottish artist, trained first at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in Art History, and then at the Building...

Squared stone: The “Casa de Piedra” by Tuñón Arquitectos

The name that the designers used to define this architecture is unequivocal and readily understandable: “casa de piedra”. And if “casa-home” is the primaeval archetype of...

The Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium announceed winners of its 2021 edition

The Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium, a Riyadh Art program, announceed Anna Korver, Haider Alawi Al-Alawi and Kim De Ruysscher as winners of its 2021...

Discover AMANZOE, a combination of Natural Stones and Water

Where "peace" and “life” meet, where simplicity is combined with luxury in an idyllic setting and water blends with stone, the result can only...

Important distinction for FHL I. KIRIAKIDIS MARBLES – GRANITES S.A. – Second Pinnacle Award

Another important distinction was won by the company FHL I. KIRIAKIDIS MARBLES – GRANITES S.A. with the awarding of the Pinnacle Award for the...

David ‘preceded medical science’ – Renaissance work shows precocious knowledge of blood circulation

Michelangelo preceded medical science in the knowledge of blood circulation shown in his masterpiece sculpture David, a US medical expert says in a new...