Spain’s natural stone sector comes through the pandemic year 2020 with almost no decline in exports

Around two-thirds of deliveries are semi-finished or processed material / Most important target country is France, followed by the UK, the USA and Germany

What are art and culture other than consumption and commerce? is the real question in a farce in the Moselle town of Traben-Trarbach in Germany

The dispute is about the local tourism fee which stone local sculptor Jürgen Waxweiler refuses to pay

Villa in Tuscany: for each of the 6 bathrooms a different stone with a different finish

The architects who carried out the natural stonework are from Studio Zeno Pucci, Laperla Marmi

New in our Stone Finder: MOHEDA BLACK DIABASE (Moheda svart diabas), stone of the year 2021 in Sweden, by Hallindens Granit company

Rolling Stones (“Pedras Rolantes“) in the Portuguese way in the pavement of the city of Évora

The artist Bernardo Bagulho creates faces and masks from leftover pieces from a sculpture center and thus sets charming accents on paths and squares

Sculptors and other artists may apply (until July 31, 2021) for residence scholarships of Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, Northern Germany

Open for artists residing in Germany, in the countries around the Baltic Sea as well as in Norway, Iceland and the UK

Rugo Stone receives 2020 Grande Pinnacle Award for their work on the Trinity Church Wall Street Altar & Chancel Restoration

The almost 175 years old house of worship received complete conservation and restoration of the Gothic Revival chancel and the historic Astor memorial altar

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

A gabion with the number 1833 is one of the stops in the Battery Point Sculpture Trail in the city of Hobart, Australia. It is an easy stroll through the city’s history

Stone detail: Sliding walls let the coolness into the house in the morning and seal it off from the heat in the afternoon