French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has sculpted marble into a convincingly rippling pool for his Petite Loire installation, created for this year's International Garden Festival (+ slideshow). More about Mathieu Lehanneur creates pool of marble for French chateau
New York 2016: New York studio Apparatus has launched two brass lighting designs, a set of marble tables and an umbrella stand during the city's design week. More about Apparatus extends furniture and lighting collection with marble and brass pieces
Milan 2016: London design studio Oeuffice has updated its collection of stools based on Greek column capitals with white marble versions, and displayed them in a black courtyard in Milan (+ slideshow). More about Oeuffice presents collection of solid marble stools at Neoclassical Milanese hotel
Milan 2016: these marble side tables by Japanese design studio Nendo look like they are leaning over. More about Nendo designs leaning marble tables for Marsotto Edizioni
Marble shapes are held inside blocks of transparent resin to create these vases by Italian designer Moreno Ratti (+ slideshow). More about Moreno Ratti suspends marble volumes inside resin blocks
Maison&Objet 2016: British designer Bethan Gray has created a collection of tables with marble tops wrapped in bands of brass (+ slideshow). More about Bethan Gray's marble Band tables are edged with brushed brass
Boxy marble-clad bays project from this family home by Ariasrecalde Taller de Arquitectura, which completes a terrace in Granada, Spain (+ slideshow). More about Strips of grey marble clad Granada residence by Ariasrecalde Taller de Arquitectura
Marble bathrooms and simple furnishings complement period mouldings and restored wooden floorboards inside this waterfront Lisbon apartment recently renovated by local office Rar.Studio (+ slideshow). More about Rar.Studio adds marble bathrooms in renovation of 19th-century Lisbon apartment
Beirut product designer Richard Yasmine has created a marble and brass side table with removable phallic legs for "kinky-minded people". More about Richard Yasmine's Glory Holes table has brass dildos for legs
Portuguese studio Fala Atelier has transformed an old clothing store in Porto into an estate agents, featuring partitions and furniture made from different types of marble (+ slideshow). More about Fala Atelier adds green, grey and black marble inside Porto estate agents
Design Miami 2015: Dutch designer Lex Pott and US wallpaper brand Calico have created products that highlight the qualities of stone, including marble furniture and wallpaper covered with stone powder (+ slideshow). More about Stone-powder wallpaper features in Fragments exhibition at Design Miami
Design Miami 2015: islands of bronze rest on top of marble tables designed by Chilean studio GT2P for its first collaboration with New York's Friedman Benda gallery. More about GT2P pairs unusual materials in Marble vs Bronze coffee table
New York studio Apparatus has unveiled a marble lantern and vessel that embody "the visual language of ceremonial objects" (+ slideshow). More about Apparatus creates Neo Marble collection influenced by ancient rituals
Product design company Native Union has developed a charging dock for the Apple Watch that combines a block of marble with a rotating metal mounting arm (+ slideshow). More about Native Union designs marble charging dock for the Apple Watch
Zurich citizens can now relieve themselves at a pink marble public pissoir, installed at an open-air car park by local architecture firm Bureau A (+ slideshow). More about Bureau A installs pink marble urinal at Zurich car park
Interlinking stone slabs form this collection of side tables by multi-disciplinary studio AMOO, which set out to create furniture that clients would chose over Ikea products (+ slideshow). More about AMOO designs tessellating tables using marble and granite slabs
Atmospheric photographs of a Swedish lake provided the reference material for this Hong Kong hotel, which Design Systems has lined with flecked marble and textured concrete (+ slideshow). More about Design Systems uses low lighting and marble to create "cold and lonely" mood inside Tuve hotel
Design Miami/Basel 2015: British designer Max Lamb has created a bathroom suite for Dzek from speckled synthetic marble and installed the products in a space lined with the same material. More about Max Lamb installs multicoloured manmade-marble bathroom at Design/Miami Basel 2015
A pair of Italian designers has extended their line of products made from rejected marble with a collection of four vases, all made from a single tile without producing any waste (+ slideshow). More about Italian designers continue marble tile recycling project with Little Gerla vases
Milan 2015: architect Zaha Hadid has carved pleats into the surfaces of these vases and tables made from different varieties of marble (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid sculpts marble vases and tables for Citco