Stone-Style Flavors & design

Stone-Style Flavors & Design is an exhibition event which starts from the territory and its traditions and comes to stone and its innovative technologies through the design. The event will be held in Carrara 9-12 June 2009

17 April 2009 / News


A Carrara an Exhibition Event design applied to stone materials

From June 9-12 - Carrara

Stone-Style Flavors & Design is an exhibition event which starts from the territory and its traditions and comes to stone and its innovative technologies through the design. The event will be held in Carrara 9-12 June 2009, the exhibition will remain open later, and will be open until June 21.

The event will be held in public areas of the Cloister of San Francesco di Carrara, will be housed in a specially created set design by Studio Santachiara Milan.

Focal point is the display of products designed by famous Italian designers such as coatings for ventilated facades, street furniture and flooring, interior design, bathrooms, fireplaces, etc., made with stone materials in the area and through the exclusive technology companies Carrara.
The display will also include a room for a multimedia presentation of technological and productive potential of the area, with exhibition of stone materials and manufacturing processes.

The event will be invited the most famous architects in Italy and abroad. The exhibition is organized by the Institute for the Foreign Trade, and through its offices abroad will select the most famous and innovative architects and designers from the Arab countries and the Gulf Area, France, Great Britain, USA and Russia to suggest the desirability of working materials and high-technology assets in the district Carrara stone. Collaborate in the realization of the exhibition-event, the Region of Tuscany and IMM, Internazionale Marmi e Macchine.
The event takes place in period usually devoted to events related to innovation in marble and coincides with the year of no CarraraMarmotec.

The event will be accompanied by a series of initiatives designed to make known to the architects and designers the most innovative in the area.

Itinerary in marble of Carrara, yesterday, today and tomorrow between nature and technology

A journey through the history and combining nature, art and design. Yes winds through the area of Carrara marble quarries, the workshops and the exhibition-event STYLE STONE, marble and dedicated to innovative technologies that give life to the creations of famous designers and architects worldwide. STONE STYLE Carrara will take place in 9-12 June 2009, the exhibition will be open later and will be open until June 21.

The tour aims to raise awareness Carrara and its territory through a path associated with the extraction and processing of marble and the results of high added value of art and design, leading air of Tuscany and impressions of luxury and innovation in homes and buildings throughout the world. Used by international architects, chosen by the most famous designers for works of art in the known world, the marble and the stone extracted in Tuscany and worked in the area can be admired in the many workshops characteristic of the urban fabric of Carrara and countries upstream.

More adventurous, but more real is to discover the cave of white marble. For those who love the origin, it may also include a visit to the Museo Civico del Marmo. Born in 1982 in order to collect the precious artefacts that document the history that's in the marble beds Carraresi and the various stages of production and processing of marble in successive centuries, the museum is divided into six sections that provide an interdisciplinary approach to such artistic, archaeological, historical, scientific and educational. From there a possibility to continue the marble quarries, passing on Ponti di Vara and within striking tunnels dug into the rock.

To get closer in time and space, the marble of today you can move from the palace of Cybo Alberico Malaspina, which now houses the Academy of Fine Arts welcomes ancient sculptures, medieval and modern (including the newsstand Fantiscrtitti dating back to the III century BC.), Which today is famous primarily for the School of Sculpture. Continue with a stroll through the streets of the center and get to the cathedral dating back to XI-XIV centuries, in Gothic-Romanesque style and embellished by the famous rose window out of white marble and zoomorphic elements, may be the right to viaticum Stone Style, from sacred to profane, from the past to the future.

It arrived as a Stone-Style Space & Design at the center of the exhibition is the display of products designed by famous Italian designers such as coatings for ventilated facades, street furniture and flooring, interior design, bathrooms, fireplaces and so on, made with marble and stone in the area and through the exclusive technology companies Carrara.

The setting, in the spaces of the Cloister of San Francesco di Carrara and within a specially created set design by Studio Santachiara in Milan, also includes a room for a multimedia presentation of technological and productive potential of land, with a display of materials and processes productive.

After the stopover town and a visit to any of the materials extracted in the area, then after the preview in the future, can tonare to immerse themselves in nature that surrounds and produces the raw material wealth of the area. Thus, in the immediate vicinity of the city center you can visit the Park Padula, rich essences and exotic plants and headquarters dell'ottocentesca Villa Fabbricotti, before departing towards the Apuan Alps.

So Campocecina, one of the most scenic of the Alps, you can admire, in Morlungo, the Cava dei Poets on the walls at the Biennale of 2002 were sculpted phrases famous people and famous poets and the memorial park where I collected the statues of the XIV International Symposium of Sculpture dedicated to the Shoah.

Info: http://www.stonestyle.info
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