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A Clean Slate: How Rough Slate Can Have a Clean Aesthetic

Architectural Ceramics

Most of Europe’s slate, for example, comes from Spain. They produce and export 90 percent of the region’s natural slate used for roofing or flooring. European countries that are lesser known but also offer slate quarries are Belgium, Germany, Italy and Wales. The cost is often a critique of natural slate.

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A Note From Jim: MIA Focuses on 2015

StoneDimensions

I had the privilege of going to Spain in November to witness the MIA receive a Macael Award, as well as learn more about the local stone market in the Macael region. While in Spain I was asked to detail who the MIA members were and what priorities the MIA organization would be focused on in 2015. 2015 Initiatives / Goals.

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Experiences of Buying Granite Worktops

Granite4Less

Granite has its own aesthetic draws, depth and beauty that come with natural stone. There’s tremendous colour and pattern variation both within a single piece of granite and between granite quarried from different parts of the world. You can check out our collection of stones in our product range section online.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Let me vent a little about Houzz

Kitchen and Residential Design

Natural stone is a natural product and even stones that come from the same quarry change radically over time. You cannot order a natural stone counter out of a catalog and you have to pick the slabs your counters will be made from in person. Thats why people get natural stone counters.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: A Coverings preview

Kitchen and Residential Design

• Cisa Ceramiche (Booth 4806) will unveil Modula, a beautiful series that replicates the look of natural stone, and Royal Marble that recalls the traditional elegance of the real material. Tiles of Spain. Both are available in four colorways and various sizes. ► June. (16). ► May. (10). ► April. (16).

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Houzz.com you're killing me

Kitchen and Residential Design

Similarly, natural stone patterns dont have formal names. A stone labeled Crema Bordeaux today looks nothing like the same stone from the same quarry in Brazil five years ago. Tiles of Spain. Whats Labrador in your market is Uba Tuba in someone elses. ► June. (16). ► May. (10). ► April. (16).

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