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Tips for selecting the right carpet
With so many colours, piles, and styles available, choosing a carpet for your home may seem like a daunting task. Bremworth share some tips on how to narrow down the search for your dream carpet, that is also right for your lifestyle, budget and family. Colour Did you know that [...]
Top five wool carpet worries – busted
Wool carpet is an investment in your home, and with any investment it pays to do your research. Here, the experts at Bremworth address common concerns when it comes to selecting wool carpet, the natural choice. Is wool carpet difficult to clean and maintain? Ever thought about how a sheep’s [...]
Focus On Bremworth
Voted New Zealand’s most trusted carpet brand for nine consecutive years, Bremworth is a premium rug and carpet company with manufacturing facilities in Auckland, Napier, and Whanganui. Flooring Magazine recently sat down with CEO Greg Smith to discuss the company’s transformational journey focused on helping consumers bring more natural products [...]
A natural step forward in flooring
Bremworth is a premium rug and carpet company with manufacturing facilities in Auckland, Napier, and Whanganui. Guided by the purpose of finding a more sustainable way, Bremworth is on a transformational journey focused on helping consumers to bring more natural products into their homes and daily lives. Their choice of [...]
Monolithic masterclass
Joe Simpson, international correspondent for Discovering Stone, attended a three-day masterclass on porcelain panel fabrication techniques by Roberto Colonetti from Perth-based European Ceramics. From being one of Western Australia’s largest importers of ceramic tiles, European Ceramics has expanded to include bathroom and kitchen fabrication on an industrial scale, including shower [...]
Sealant solutions for natural stone
Joe Simpson writes that with the correct selection of cleaning and maintenance products, caring for natural stone or tiled surfaces should be relatively straightforward. It will extend the life and preserve the value of the investment in these beautiful surfaces. Enormous care goes into the manufacture and supply of natural [...]
Silicosis safety and protection
WorkSafe Victoria provides tools to help create a safe and healthy workplace. As a statutory authority of the Victorian state government, it asks: Are you a worker or an employer in the stonemason industry? In the last year, Victoria has seen a significant increase in workers diagnosed with silicosis and [...]
Caesarstone and Wattyl collaborate
Two of Australia’s most innovative interiors brands are working together to create pairings of colours and materials in surface finishes and fittings for consumers. The collaboration between Wattyl and Caesarstone, in which a diverse collection of quartz surfaces are paired with paint colours, will provide an inspirational guide to many [...]
Marmomac 2019: Geodiversity of Stone
Joe Simpson reports on the latest Marmomac, an event that celebrates natural stone and the technology, machinery and artistry that goes into creating it. Once again, a key zone at the most recent Marmomac held in the Italian city of Verona was The Italian Stone Theatre. It is a dedicated [...]
Silicosis: New safeguards
An outbreak in cases of accelerated silicosis in Australia has sparked calls from government bodies to address what is widely regarded as a national epidemic, and has major implications for people working with stone. There have been many developments on a legislative level since Discovering Stone magazine first wrote about [...]
Resolving a legal paradox using stone
The fifth edition of the Archimarathon Awards held in the Palazzo Mezzanotte, Milan, Italy, celebrated 55 outstanding architectural and interior design projects. A special Stone Award, organised in collaboration with Marmomac, was presented to Kaan Architecten for its restrained and elegant Netherlands Supreme Court project. The Supreme Court of the [...]