SGI Presentation XIAMEN 2016

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Marble from Greece as a

Worldwide Ambassador for Architecture

The word marble derives from Greek word mármaros

Parthenon

in a Marble Route Itinerary

From Extraction (Mountain Pentelicus )

To Exposition-Amphipolis

The Masterpieces

Caryatid Porch Athens

Drents Museum- Netherlands

“Interior shape character out of their components”

Everything is Possible

when Architecture empowers People

Feodorovsky Cathedral, S. Petersburg, Russia

The Revival of History

The Tsar’s Porch historically

In 1914 & Today

Tsar’s Porch interior Main Entrance and Imperial Stairs

Bell Tower & Tatiana Bell

The upper Church- Marble preserves Tradition

Different window handicraft

Handicraft Lovely Wall

a wonderful confection of different marble patterns

The Upper Church

Cosmatesque or Cosmati technique

geometric decorative inlay stonework

The altar apse of the Lower Church

Labyrinth

Represents the human path to God

Labyrinth Synthesis

Pomegranate Hotel 5 * Greece, by German Enin

The main Entrance- Emperador Dark wall

Luxurious Afrodita Spa Reception

How we influence the marble

Art Craft Tree & Birds

Bespoke Spa Pool Interior

Εxceptional Aesthetic Splendor

Marble interacts with Healing Environments

Four Seasons- The Surf Club, Miami

Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP

1920: Harvey Firestone and his friends saw

this land

that would become the Surf Club

R. Meier

“The whiteness of white is never just white"

Our challenge

“Pirgon returns the outer landscape into the apartments”

Master Bathroom

Thassos Snow White

Joseph Dirand

“Creating spaces that are super-generous to life”

Pelagonia Marble

“12 Mythic Marbles”

Breathing Life into Marble

Vermion White

King Midas & a Rose Garden

“The Kaleidoscope Project”

Marble’s Projectile Movement

Hellenic White Marble Quarry Pirgon

The largest in Europe

Stone Group International

The largest Group of marble Companies in Greece

82 Countries globally- Overseas Subsidiaries

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it,

and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved

until I set him free.” Michelangelo