NEWS
MARBLE WHITER THAN THE TAJ MAHAL COMES
TO LONDON British Entrepreneur Chris Gilbert of Fox Marble is supplying a housing development in Chelsea and the rest of the UK with rare and highly sought after luxury, pure white Sivec and high crystalline marbles.
With his typical eye for opportunity, Chris Gilbert and his team secured the rights to sought after resources in Kosovo and Macedonia.
For luxury interiors, fine marble is a must-have component. Very often, it’s a pure and white stone that discerning high-end developers and homebuyers want; think palatial bathrooms reminiscent of bygone Maharajas.
Fox produces a rare marble that’s whiter than the stone of the world famous Taj Mahal. The company’s stone, including the White Sivec and the popular Grigio Argento, is already being used in luxury developments in the UK such as London’s exclusive Chelsea Creek, being developed by Berkeley Homes, where apartments are demanding prices of £17m. White Sivec is of such a high class and cystallinity that Hindu temple
OPEN CALL: TILE OF SPAIN AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR
DESIGN The fifteenth edition of the Tile of Spain Awards is now open for entries, welcoming project submissions from international architects, interior designers and architecture students. Projects can be located anywhere in the world, but must make significant use of Spanish ceramics and must have been completed between January 2014 and October 2016.
The 2016 Tile of Spain Awards offer a prize fund of 39,000 Euros divided into
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builders are carving religious statues from it in India, and it is extremely popular in the Middle East.
What’s even more unusual is all this perfect white marble is being cut from quarries in Kosovo and Macedonia.
It’s a unique story of humble beginnings to the homes of London’s elite. Fox starts work in Kosovo, where the company is a major local employer, cuts the silk-like stone from its quarries, puts it through gang saws and finally it starts its life as a luxury bathroom in Chelsea.
Chris Gilbert, Fox Marble CEO, commented: “Our marble is world
three categories: Architecture (17,000 Euros), Interior Design (17,000 Euros) and Student Degree Project (5,000 Euros). The jury may also give special mentions in each category.
The jury chairman is the Portuguese architect, author and lecturer Gonçalo Byrne, holder of the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture, plus Rome’s Piranesi Award. The panel of judges also includes Elisa Valero, author and professor at the Granada School of Architecture, Iñaqui Carnicero, lecturer at Cornell University and organiser of the Spanish Pavilion exhibition at the XV Venice Biennale, Nani Marquina, Spanish designer and founder of nanimarquina, Nuno Brandão Costa, Portuguese architect and lecturer, Ramón
class and the perfect complement to any luxury apartment or home interior fittings, which is why the Chelsea and wider UK market is so attracted to it. Our range offers options to suit all manner of styles and design requirements, whether you’re looking for a sleek, Mediteranean or Arabian image, or something striking, unusual and interesting.
“We’re really looking forward to seeing our stone in the homes of the future and we are sure our customers will find as much pleasure in its class and quality as we do.”
www.foxmarble.net
Monfort, Spanish architect and founding member of the Castellon Ceramic Design Centre and Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave, architecture lecturer and editor.
The awards have a long and distinguished history of recognising and championing talent. In 2015 the award in the architecture category went to Carmen Martínez Gregori, Carmel Gradolí Martínez and Arturo Sanz Martínez for the ‘Multipurpose Teaching Hall at the Gavina School‘ (Picanya, Valencia), whilst the Interior Design award went to El Equipo Creativo for the ‘Blue Wave Cocktail Bar’ (Barcelona).
The closing date for entries is 26th October 2016.
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