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Your home is a personal retreat – a place where we can be ourselves and forget about everything. That’s why decorating such a space will not be as easy as it may seem. More difficult than choosing a living room sofa or your favorite bathroom material, there is something more that complicates our choices.

PIATRAONLINE is the first online store for natural stone, arrived on the market in a time when clients were neither accustomed nor ready to shop online, particularly in this domain. However, it has been over 10 years since that time and the prospects for the design and construction market have radically modified.

We have declared our fascination for natural stone anytime we had an opportunity and is exactly such passion that opened up fresh horizons and outlooks. Such a natural and simple material showed us once more that essential things are hidden in details – people and places.

Seeing and touching natural stone is not enough; you must understand its potential. For such a journey, you will need professional and customized assistance.

You might think that this type of decoration project is only reserved for professionals, but a couple of materials, tools and plenty of patience are enough for shaping your own mosaic art. Since ancient history, this art of wall decoration remains fascinating due to a unique aesthetic and its artistic freedom.

Throughout history and especially in Romanian society, women had supporting roles in social life. It is rather late, with the beginning of the 20th century that things begin to change and women gain political and social rights.

Sculpture is perhaps the oldest form of art, stone being the oldest material used, but also the least acknowledged. Since earliest times, people aspired to reveal the shapes hidden within the stone. Karim Rashid, one of the most creative contemporary designer, once stated that people are meant to create.

Design has a way of influencing people's lives and daily behavior by revealing emotions and altering the mood. And designers are the ones responsible for our basic objects. They have a unique ability to see the world, a detail that eludes us and even perceive things that do not exist yet.

Chinese bamboo is one of those miracles of nature, happening as an attempt to transmit us some lessons. The most important lesson is patience. To reach maturity and undergo a transformation process, we need patience.

Natural stone can be defined as more than just a material used in construction. We can tell about the natural stone that it is a living testimony of the past, of the pure creation that people still cannot explain. Each fragment is the result of a particular event, of a certain time, in a certain place.