Art & Design

20 sculptors to take part in 2nd Tuwaiq symposium in Riyadh

Riyadh will host the second Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium in the Saudi capital’s Diplomatic Quarter from Jan. 10-30. Twenty artists from around the world will attend the symposium and create new works inspired by Tuwaiq Mountain — one of the Kingdom’s most famous landmarks — from local white marble. Saudi Arabia will be represented by sculptors […]

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Striking fireplace design ideas – From sophisticated marble to classic brick

There’s nothing more cozy than curling up with a blanket right by a toasty fire on a winter evening. If you are looking to bring the hearth into your abode or just need inspiration to upgrade your fireplace, this roundup of gorgeous designs from is for you. From sleek marble designs to classic brick details, these fireplaces are

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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, which was originally launched in 2018 in Paris, is being exhibited for the first time at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York, where it will be on view until

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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 shy away from Herculean challenges, especially when it came to making art. In 1978, then in her early 50s, Eshel moved from Carrara, Italy, to New York City with stone slabs

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Lithic Garden curated by Vincenzo Pavan at Marmomac 2019 Italian Stone Theatre

The natural environment as the fusion of two worlds – geological and biological – can be explained and interpreted as an enclosed space, a room open to the sky above. Just like Hortus conclusus, that embodied in a microcosm of symbols the desire of the Mediaeval world for a deep bond with nature and the

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Korean designers create products with marble stone waste, and teach a lesson in reduce, reuse and recycle

Hea-Kyoung and Jung-Ki, the designers of FICT Studio are doing some ‘mar-ble-ous’ work in Seoul, South Korea. Their idea for the new furniture series started with Total-Marble, a factory that brought up its concern over the excessive quantities of marble residue being dumped as industrial waste. Concerned with all the wastage, they approached FICT Design

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