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The interior design in a hotel is essential in terms of delivering a unique experience for guests, staff and every other visitor. Hence, this is about potential customers, apart from communicating your brand promise and highlighting the facilities. However, interior design in a hotel goes beyond sleek lines and sumptuous elements of furniture. Hence, we've created a guide for hotel interiors with natural stone.

In a time when innovation and sustainability are the main priorities, the Johann Gregor Mendel Czech Polar Station (JGM) researchers have broadened their research horizon to include a study for testing polymers under extreme conditions. Hence, an opportunity for a famous product to be highlighted: the BERA Gravel FixTM sheet, a plastic material used in specific circumstances.

Around the first century AD, the Roman Empire, a global force, created a lasting legacy with its innovative use of natural stones. Renowned for its sturdy granite roads, Rome extended its mastery to structures such as the bathrooms and the iconic columns of the Pantheon, all made of durable granite and travertine.

The art of sculpture has always been an impressive way of bringing ideas and feelings to life. Global artists have managed to transform the stone, wood, and metal into artworks able to take us off the ground into their fascinating world. In this article, we’ll stop to admire some amazing sculptures that lift us from earth to heaven, either due to their artistic achievement, or by the amazing techniques used. Each of these art works presents a unique story and renders a fresh take on sculpture, one of the most fascinating 7 fine arts.

If you feel your home space needs a refresh, there's no need to do an expensive renovation or invest time and energy in complex decorating projects. Sometimes small changes can have a big impact on the atmosphere in a room. Here are three simple decor changes you can make to refresh and completely transform your space.

Stone with Rock Face finish seems to be the oldest type of finishing. A tone that carries the awareness of the Paleolithic stonecutters, continued with intense piety by the Renaissance architects, then partly forgotten by the monsters of the first Industrial Revolution, the altering shape of the stone blocks when done by hand still arouses the admiration of contemporaries today. Nowadays buildings are similar to the primitive settlements, with their cold, squat volumes, a vernacular architecture born and developed on stacked stone centuries ago.

Since ancient times, towers were often built for defense and watch purpose, with massive, solid shapes, like the ones from ancient Egypt and Babylon. Such structures were also meant to serve as symbols of the power and prestige of their respective kingdoms.