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A unique, extremely elegant hotel built in a cave on a 6,000 sq. m. area. A few minutes from the Buffalo National River Valley, in the Ozark Mountains (Arkansas), in a natural setting of great diversity, combining rivers running deep with steep slopes, is Beckham Creek Cave Lodge. As you will see, impressive is not only the top quality comfort, but also the incredible relaxing atmosphere that includes all the rooms decorated in the underground of stone. Interesting is also the history of the place, as you will see below.

At the beginning of civilization, the primitives used the stone for shelter and hunt. Later, discovering with surprise the qualities and diversity of this material, people have come to understand their paradoxical essence: hardness and malleability. Since then, for thousands of years, working with natural stone has achieved incredible refinement for our ancestors. We have on one hand the art of housing construction, road, temples and bridges, and then, the art itself.

The Wave, Arizona, USA The Wave is a rocky sandstone structure in Arizona, United States, on the Colorado plateau. The area is famous for its wavy and colorful relief. Due to the fragile struc...

Alex Seton (born 1977) is a young plastic artist from Australia with activities in several areas of art: photography, video installations, sculpture, who became famous due to his works made of marble. Probably knowing that already you will look differently (with wonder!) at the picture from the beginning of this article and the ones that follow. The marble, common element in all these creations is apparently left exactly without its defining feature. Hardness and stiffness have disappeared, being replaced by malleability, softness, fluency. Although lifeless objects, Seton's marble representations seem full of life.

We say about the natural stone that it is hot, it vibrates like a living element, it has an organic appearance, it has a friendly attitude, it speaks, it communicates with the environment ... These and many phrases such as this, are ways to say that natural stone, treated suitably, is not and should not be considered a simple object. We have written on this blog about the surprising and hidden qualities of natural stone, and today we put in the spotlight another artist: José Manuel Castro López.

Although the undisputed advantages of the natural stone compared to ceramic tiles are acknowledged by many people, I consider it useful to return to the topic, especially since the volume of real estate investments is constantly increasing in Romania. Whether you are preparing to move to a new home or have plans to refurbish your own, you will inevitably reach to the time of choosing the material for wall cladding flooring. We discussed this very hot topic with a professional, experienced installer.

Man has been tattooing for thousands of years. Evidence of tattoos is widespread throughout the world. As signs of adolescent initiation rituals, spiritual or magical connections, trademarks of outlaws, signs of membership to certain groups, indications of social status, and many others, tattoos have today come to be considered a true art.

You have a wide range of plinths available: wood, polyurethane, metal, ceramic tiles, natural stone. Regardless of material and form, they all have a double purpose - aesthetic and practical. "...

At the beginning of the 19th century, Dinicu Golescu laid the foundation of a building that half a century later would become the Royal Palace of Bucharest, a building now known as the National Art...

Recently, the first library of materials in Romania, a space dedicated to specialists, students and everyone interested in construction, design or architecture, has opened in Bucharest, inspired by an idea already existing in the major cities of the world: New York,