Last year, 1.2 million tons of blocks crossed the Italian border to China ... the Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth. The market as a whole is worth over ...

It’s among civilisation’s oldest building materials, but marvel is experiencing something of a renaissance thanks to bold ...

In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate output of about 200,000 tons. They supply the bulk of the marble used in Italy and Europe to-day for sculpture and other ...

This is a very common pattern in Italy: the procurement system ... the idea of the domination of nature that the quarry activity brings with it? Marble excavation has been done here for more ...

At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata (pictured above) – a ...

“The machine time is going to be 18 months.” Inside a marble quarry in Carrara, Italy. Caleb Stein “I wanted to extend tenderness and sensuality to the process, just as I would when ...