Pink marble and patchy concrete emulate ancient Rome in Melbourne’s Pentolina pasta bar
Australian studio Biasol paired worn concrete walls with pink marble and rich red accents for the interiors of this Italian restaurant in Melbourne, which takes visual cues from...
Altrock is a terrazzo made using waste from the marble industry
London-based designer Robin Grasby uses offcuts from luxury marble workshops to create a terrazzo material he calls "beautifully chaotic".Called Altrock, the material can be used for worktops, wall coverings, tables...
A Textile Designer Turns to Natural Stone
Award-winning American textile and product designer Lori Weitzner is used to working with textiles and paper, but when the opportunity presented itself to design...
Nendo mines impromptu marble bench in façade of Marsotto’s Brera showroom
Following multiple gravity-defying marble furnishing collaborations since 2010, Nendo’s minimal style now defines Marsotto’s new brera showroom in Milan. At the front, the japanese designer...
The largest book in the world is made of marble!
The world's largest book is in the Kudodau Pagoda in Myanmar. The book has 1,640 pages with 100 lines each and is 1.52 metres...
Marble and stone as seen in the new 2023 collections
Marble and the other types of natural stone have been among the most commonly-used construction materials since antiquity – Pliny the Elder extolled its virtues...
konstantin grcic presents volumes, a collection of objects of uncertain use for galerie kreo
Blurring the line between sculpture and design, Konstantin Grcic presents ‘Volumes’, a collection of six monolithic marble objects at Galerie Kreo in London. Diverging...
Casa Salvatori in Milan brings together marble furnishings and flecked terrazzo floors
Marble artworks, ornaments and furniture appear throughout this Milanese apartment, designed by Elissa Ossino Studio for the head of Italian stone brand Salvatori.The apartment is set within...
Carrara white is trendy: from Adidas to Ferragamo perfumes
Luxury brands fond of Carrara marbles. And the Gucci supermodels parade among them.Carrara marble is trendy: the T Magazine, a New York Times supplement,...
Realistic Pillows Sculpted from Blocks of White Marble
In studios in Oslo and northern Italy, Norwegian sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås uses a pneumatic hammer and other carving tools to shape blocks of marble into...
