For the Carlyle & Co.’s flagship store location in Greensboro, NC, the jewelry retailer is utilizing a full granite kitchen, along with a range of other stone elements.
Although I am in contact with individual stone fabricators on an almost-daily basis, I don’t often get to sit in a room full of fabricators outside of the trade show circuit. And since the last major U.S. trade show was Coverings back in April, I was eager to gauge the collective viewpoint of the stone fabricators who gathered in my home state of New Jersey last month for a segment of the Marble Institute of America/Stone World Industry Education series.
Once again, the eyes of the international stone trade will turn to Verona, Italy, for the Marmomacc trade fair, which showcases stone and stoneworking technology from Italy and around the globe.
Known on a national level for its work on high-profile institutional stone projects, R. Bratti Associates, Inc. has also become a leading fabricator of high-end residential stonework.
Based in Rivoli, Verona, Italy, Cereser Marmi processes an extremely diverse lineup of stone from around the globe, and it has developed an innovative system for organizing and displaying its materials.
With several quarries and extensive stoneworking facilities in the heart of the Jura limestone region of Germany, Vereinigte Marmorwerke (VM) Kaldorf offers a comprehensive spectrum of material and products.
Over the course of the past two decades, Pokarna Limited of Secunderabad, India, has grown to become one of the nation’s leading granite suppliers, and it continues to add technology and efficiency to its operation.
In my travels as editor of Stone World, I have toured large-scale stoneworking plants in locales around the world. These trips have taken me to classic stoneworking villages in Italy, Spain and Germany as well as relative “newcomers” in Brazil and China. However, in 16-plus years at Stone World, I never had the chance to check out the stone industry in India.
For the Wilshire Le Doux Medical Building in Beverly Hills, CA, Coast Green granite cladding combines with glass to create a modern, fashionable aesthetic.