This past holiday season, FUM Australia reaffirmed its commitment to giving back to the community through our annual Christmas charity initiative. Following the meaningful response we received last year, we are proud to confirm that for Christmas 2025 we have once again chosen to support the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation with our charitable donation.

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Through the Wunderkammer event and Marmomac showcase, we invited audiences to rediscover stone as a living, evolving material — one that connects history, environment and design. Each project we undertake is an opportunity to demonstrate how thoughtful sourcing, innovative fabrication and artistic collaboration can transform natural stone into timeless works of architecture and art.

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What makes Carrara’s quarries resonate so deeply with the world of luxury is their ability to serve as natural storytellers. Guests don’t simply enter a venue—they step into a living narrative, one carved into the heart of the mountains over centuries.

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This year, during Milan Design Week, while the city celebrated creativity in all its forms, Franchi Umberto Marmi opened the doors to something more elemental—a return to the origins of material, meaning and design.

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Natural stone has been a cornerstone of human architecture for thousands of years. But in 2025, the role of stone is evolving. It’s no longer just about tradition or grandeur; it’s about smart design, sustainability, regenerative and biophilic architecture.

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We’re pleased to announce that Franchi Umberto Marmi has reported a record-breaking revenue of €79.8 million in 2024—an 8% increase from the previous year. This growth was largely driven by booming sales in North America and Australia.

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After seven years of delays and a complete recasting, “The Brutalist” finally went into production in 2023 and is now in cinemas. It was filmed across Hungary and within the marble city of Carrara, Italy, with its unmistakable Apuan Alps skyline.

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This holiday season, Franchi Umberto Marmi Australia is proud to announce a meaningful initiative to give back to the community and the environment.

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The major international natural stone trade fairs are privileged observatories for understanding the evolution of the stone industry. From Marmomac to Xiamen, from İzmir to Dubai, these events showcase marble within increasingly broader markets: architecture, design, construction, luxury, contract, outdoor spaces, and sustainability. A global landscape that demonstrates how natural stone is now a living material at the heart of contemporary design.

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There are places where a natural resource becomes identity, landscape, language, and culture. Carrara is one of these places. For millennia, its name has been strictly connected to the word marble: not simply because one of the world's most famous stones is quarried here, but because an entire system of knowledge, skills, and production practices has developed around it. This is the so-called know-how of Carrara marble: a technical and cultural heritage that brings together quarry workers, blocks cutters, polishers, artisans, and designers within a unique supply chain in the world.

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Poltrona Frau inaugura il suo nuovo store monobrand a Carrara, città simbolo del marmo italiano nel mondo. Un progetto che unisce design, architettura e tradizione manifatturiera d’eccellenza, firmato dall’architetto Michele De Lucchi, tra i più autorevoli protagonisti della scena architettonica internazionale.

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The Rodanini Pietà is a marble work that Michelangelo sculpted for the first time between 1552 and 1553 and then worked on it again between 1555 and 1564, probably until a few days before his death, leaving it incomplete. Kept until 2015 inside the Sforza Castle Museum in Milan, it was then moved and can now be admired inside the ancient Spanish Hospital in the Castle’s Cortile delle Armi, in a room designed by architect Michele De Lucchi.

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This architectural movement that started from England and established itself all over the world in the 1950s is now becoming a protagonist in the media

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After first course in “Architecture for the Landscape,” FUM relaunches partnership with YACademy again for 2024

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Sono numerosi i film girati a Carrara con protagoniste le cave e il marmo. Ne abbiamo selezionati tre tra i più celebri.

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Il marmo di Carrara ha una storia millenaria che affonda le radici all’epoca romana quando era comunemente noto come marmo lunense.

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Carrara marble has been used in architecture for centuries. It is rooted in the Roman age with the first architectural uses and the artistic ones. Over two thousand years of history have given humanity architectural masterpieces made of marble throughout the ages. From the religious to the civil context, passing through major works privately commissioned.

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Carrara marble is famous all over the world for its unique features and it is associated with the most important architecture and art works.

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Although Carrara marble was already known for its uses in architecture and art, during the sixteenth century it experienced a new season of distribution throughout Europe thanks to the tiles commonly called "marmette" or "quadrette".

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Carrara marble is a cultural bridge that crosses boundaries and goes beyond oceans. From the earliest times of the Roman world to the age of globalization, marble has been synonymous of excellence, beauty and uniqueness.

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On the boat, where everything is designed for the maximum comfort of guests and for a top sailing experience, the excellence characterising our Made in Italy is increasingly the master, becoming the protagonist of these exclusive moments of freedom and pure contact with nature.

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Considered one of the most important contemporary art exhibition centres in the South of France, the Mamac was designed by the architects Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal in the late 80s.

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Ultimato nel 2021, il padiglione C1 è l’ultimo nato del quartier generale ed è stato progettato da Giuseppe Venuta.

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A contemporary and evolutionary use of marble characterises Openbox’s approach to this project  and defines the unique character of this dwelling, perfectly integrated with the surrounding landscape.

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Today we meet Fili Pari, the first fashion-tech startup to develop a collection of outerwear for women using the innovative material MARM \ MORE®

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With its natural uniqueness, through the centuries marble has often been used by great architects and sculptors for its exclusive characteristics of durability and versatility.

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What is the essence of Carrara marble? A millennia-long history, the genius of the artists, the excellence of the great architecture, the skill of the best craftsmen and the authenticity of being natural and sustainable.

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Even though today it seems incredible, there was a time when the marble of Carrara was carried down from the mountain on a steep iron path used by locomotives and carriages of the Private Marble Railway of Carrara.

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