Deeply rooted in the stone industry, Carrara, Italy still plays an important role by hosting Carrara² every other year – where a delegation of stone industry professionals come together for education, sharing ideas and touring leading stone producing facilities and quarries in the area

This year's AIA Conference on Architecture featured a one hour long seminar on the World of Natural Stone: Geology, Sourcing, Selection, Testing & Processing.

Tiffany Gowler is the Lead Designer and co-founder for Gowler Homes in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her and her husband, Matt, decided to build their forever home and decided to use Sequel Quartz Statuario from Bedrosians throughout the whole house.

Natural stone plays a dominant role in the design of Neto restaurant at the new Four Seasons Sao Paulo in Brazil. Several stone varieties were employed as flooring and counters – merging Brazilian style with Italian tradition – to create an inviting dining space.

When Llimona was commissioned by Hotel Llevant, located in Llafranc on the Costa Brava, Spain, to redesign and redecorate the whole building’s interiors, he saw the perfect opportunity to incorporate the intrinsic link between the local area and the sea into his design concept. 

Over his 25-year career in glass and stone processing for architectural applications, Kerry Clark had never been asked to find a tooling solution for creating artifacts for an art exhibition. Then one day, Clark, who is brand sales manager for Diamut America’s glass division, received a call from Miles Driscoll, design engineering manager at Precision Stone in Long Island, NY.

The backdrop of the lobby at Midtown Athletic Club and Hotel is comprised of large blocks of Absolute Black granite that made their journey from the Telangana Mountains of Southern India.

Pacific Shore Stones hosted a fabricator workshop at its facility in Ceres, CA, which attracted a crowd of industry professionals who came to learn and exchange ideas and experiences

At the Fabricator Forum held during StonExpo 2019, several industry veterans spoke to a group of fabricators – addressing issues they all face and solutions to remedy them