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WORKSHOP: Natural Stone: Journey from Mountainside to Jobsite
Natural stone has come to be an ever-present material on our buildings and interiors, and for good reasons: it is unmatched by any other material in its beauty, durability, structural properties, and sustainability. But have you considered the marble floor in your lobby or the granite countertop in your kitchen and how they came to be? This fast-paced program examines the many steps a stone may travel in its journey. The stone's story is told with real examples of quarry extraction, wholesale quarry block trading, fabrication into slabs, stair treads, mosaics, and other architectural elements, the dry-lay, the installation, and finally the potential restoration and reuse of this timeless material.
