Stone newsletter. October 2018
Sale lot quartz slabs
QUARTZ slabs batch - sacrificed price -65%
Due to the discontinuation of Quartz and Composites, a marble factory sells its stock at a shock price. Whole slabs, of different colors and thicknesses (listing on request), protected from climatic aggressions. About 160M2, to be withdrawn in only 1 time, in 1 point of storage.
Price of sale of the lot: 4000 € HT or 25 € HT M2 (purchase value of the lot: 12 000 € HT).
Location: Provence Côte d'Azur. France
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Gray granite Tarn retained by Toulouse, France
We know the pavement that will develop the forecourt of the canal between the Matabiau bridge and the Riquet bridge: on the central part, facing the station, it will be a gray granite Tarn identical to that of Bayard Street and aisles Jean Jaurès. A choice that ensures a will of continuity and readability of the facilities between the station and the city center.
On the north and south-boulevards Bonrepos and Pierre Sémard, pavement coverings are planned: for the greenway side Canal du Midi: a serious limestone emulsion and for the pavement side side: a shot blasted with granite border. A coating that will allow both the ease of maintenance and the possible modification of street furniture.
The company Marsac becomes Design Marbrerie
Under the Marbrerie Design brand, Laurent Benoiton took over the Marsac company from rue d'Artiges in Chauvigny.
Previously settled in Mignaloux-Beauvoir, Laurent and Émilie Benoiton have taken over since July 1, the chauvinist company of funerary marble Marsac, located rue d'Artiges.
Under the brand Design Marbrerie, the couple, from the Indre, offers in the continuity the sale of monuments, vaults, plaques, artificial flowers and all cemetery works. "Taking over the Marsac business was a great opportunity for us. It brings us a good volume of business, "says the new manager, who has done some work of redevelopment of the office and offers every month an offer on an exhibition monument.
(1) The establishment of Mignaloux will soon be closed.
Design Marbrerie, 27, rue d'Artiges in Chauvigny
FIRST STONE FOR MUDAC AND ELYSÉE IN SWITZERLAND
The opening of the two museums is still scheduled for autumn 2021. The first building of this project, the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, will be inaugurated in October 2019.
The first stone of the building designed to house the Musée de l'Elysée and the mudac in Platform 10 in Lausanne was laid Friday. A white marble cube of two parts symbolically marks the meeting of these two entities.
Started in early June, the work is progressing according to schedule and the opening of the two museums is scheduled for autumn 2021, says a statement from the township, the city and the various institutions. This construction site corresponds to the second stage of Platform 10, a museum hub, or "arts district", which will be built on 25,000 m2 just a stone's throw from the railway station in the Vaudois capital.
The first building of this project, the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, will be inaugurated in October 2019.
Marble stone
In order to symbolize the meeting of the Elysée Photography Museum, directed by Tatyana Franck, and that of the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac) led by Chantal Prod'Hom, the architects opted for a cube, composed of of two white marble elements. "The two parties put one on the other take the image of the two institutions, and touch in three points," said the statement.
To attend the installation of this stone by state councilors Pascal Broulis and Cesla Amarelle, the trustee of Lausanne Grégoire Junod and the directors of both museums among others, some 500 people had made the trip. Politicians, sponsors, SBB representatives, cultural circles or the economy.
For the Musée de l'Elysée, this new building should allow it to double the exhibition surfaces and to bring together the collections' conservation areas by tripling their volume. The mudac will see him doubled his exhibition spaces.
100 million
The overall budget of this project is 100 million francs. It includes 40 million from the state of Vaud, 20 million from the City of Lausanne and 40 million from contributions from patrons and private partners.
Mosaic
The mosaic technique allows you to make drawings, frescoes, friezes, floor coverings ... by assembling small pieces of various materials. The most diverse materials are used such as: clear or colored pieces of glass, silver, wood, shells, various stones ... These recovery materials often called tesserae or cassons can be used as such or re-cut. But we can also use materials made for this purpose such as Briare enamel (proposed in a thickness of 3 cm and forty different colors) Venetian smalt (with in this case the almost infinite choice of shades in a thickness of one cm).
The material used will depend on its availability, but also on the desired application (mosaics of floors made of wear-resistant hard stones, mosaics for pools resistant to water and treatment products, interior or exterior mosaics ...) .
The elements constituting the mosaic are glued on the support using suitable products (cements, coatings, various glues ...)
The technique of mosaic is to form patterns, figures, friezes ... from pieces broken and cut, multicolored, called tesserae or cassons (for broken tiles) and assembled with putty or plaster. We can use ceramic fragments, stone, glass paste or even marble (hard and crystalline rock that is suitable for floor mosaics), Briare enamels (3 mm thick and more than 35 different colors), or Venetian smalt (about 1 cm thick and several hundred colors). But we can also use pebbles, shells, broken mirrors, slate ...
Three different techniques
The choice is made according to the support, the destination and the size of the mosaic:
• the direct method is practiced in situ and consists in directly sticking the tesserae to the place on the support
• the direct method on net (appeared 20 years ago) is done at first in the workshop: the tesserae are pre-glued to the place on a fiberglass frame which is then fixed on the final support, in situ . This technique, often used to create large sets or frescoes, allows to deliver a mosaic ready to pose and thus, to reduce the time of intervention on the building site
• The indirect method (invented in the middle of the 19th century) is also done in the workshop: the pattern to be made is reversed compared to the original because the tesserae are glued upside down on a temporary support, usually made of kraft paper. In some cases, a wooden frame, set around the mosaic, will then be used as formwork to sink a bed of mortar. After drying, the mosaic is turned over, the kraft paper is removed and the mosaic fixed in one piece on the site. If in the direct method, we can play on the thickness of the materials to give relief effects, the indirect method, on the contrary, favors a completely flat surface even with different thicknesses of materials. What is interesting for making table tops or floor slabs
Mortar or tile adhesive
The tesserae and cassons are glued with a mortar made from a volume of cement for a volume of sifted river sand (0.2 mm in diameter), all added water. To slow the setting time (in the case of small tesserae), it is possible to add one or two volumes of non-hydraulic lime to this mortar as well as natural pigments (oxides or earth) to color it when no joint finishing is not planned. Today, this binder - which requires a perfect control of the time of implementation - is more and more neglected in favor of industrial adhesive mortars, identical to those used by tilers, offering different setting times.
Marble company creation Eclypse, France
Ely Labaye worked in the building. On the occasion of an experience in funeral parlor, he became passionate about the marble industry.
He has just created, in Aigurande (36), his masonry-marble business, Eclypse. It offers as main services the laying of vaults, the maintenance of burials and the creation of funerary monuments. He also practices marble work in the renovation of buildings, bathrooms and pool surrounds.
Carrara marble 1
The famous Carrara marble is not only a symbol of luxury. The site has especially become one of the high places of calcium carbonate extraction, used in particular in the manufacture of toothpastes. An industrial exploitation that disfigures the landscape and is accompanied by deaths on construction sites, pollution and resource grabbing by a local elite and international actors, including the bin Laden family and the Swiss multinational Omya.
The whiteness of the place is misleading. From a distance, the quarries of Carrara recall the contours of a glacier. Approaching, it is a mining basin that spreads before our eyes, an off-white tablecloth laid on the flanks of the Apuan Alps. On this summer day, dozens of trucks loaded with rough marble blocks crisscross the mountains devoured by diggers. In these steep paths, our 4x4 vehicle struggles to climb to the Michelangelo quarry, where marble statuario is extracted, one of the most expensive, sold up to 4,600 francs per ton.
Here a dozen workers are busy under a blazing sun. Riccardo, 52, including thirty in the Tuscan quarries, tackles a block of marble with a diamond wire saw. The heat is stifling. "In summer, the yard is a real furnace. In winter, it is cold and wet, "blows the son and grandson of a miner. He explains with pride what his job is, before concluding: "I hope, however, that my son will do something else in life."
High risk work
In careers, despite the efforts made in recent years, security is not flawless. On July 11, a block of marble stored in a warehouse collapsed with Luca Savio, 37, father of a little boy. A few weeks earlier, in May, another worker lost his life, Luciano Pampana, 58, crushed by a digger. "The slaves continue to shed their blood in Carrara," exclaimed Father Raffaello during his homily: "The Apuan Alps have been savagely scarred and if not many have taken advantage, some have become very rich!"
"Slaves continue to shed their blood in Carrara"
Don Raffaele, priest of Carrara
Angelo Mangiarotti, a marble master at RBC Paris
The Parisian showroom of RBC, located in the 15th arrondissement, offers until November 23, an exhibition dedicated to the Italian master of architecture and design Angelo Mangiarotti (1921-2012). On the sidelines of the Paris Design Week, this exhibition named "Angelo Mangiarotti: skilful reflections" presents the iconic creations of the master, marble and wood, which are reissued since 2010 by Agapecasa, the entity positioned on the habitat and the contract d'Agape, an Italian company specializing in the world of high-end bathroom. The creations on display reflect the designer's ability to imagine marble furniture without joints or tightening: the Eros tables (1971) for example, consist of a frustoconical foot - wider at the base than at the top - which supports the plateau by simple gravitational embedding, the whole being blocked by the weight of the material, which gives lines of a great simplicity and purity.
The creator goes even further with the Eccentrico elliptical tables, which consist of an elliptical plane inserted asymmetrically into an inclined cylindrical foot, the whole holding in balance thanks to a learned calculation of distribution of forces. Agapecasa also reissues Mangiarotti's equally inspired wooden creations: a system patented more than 50 years ago, the Cavaletto library is a modular program consisting of an inverted V-shaped trestle element, which can be superimposed thanks to a simple gravitational joint, and can accommodate shelves to block by a "dovetail" assembly. As for the Incas table, with its legs trunk-pyramidal trapezoidal section, it is declined by the manufacturer as well as marble solid wood.
