Our purpose is to establish an ongoing international dialogue about contemporary displays that will help to promote stone appreciation. We encourage members of the global viewing stone community to create new ways of displaying stones that reflect your life in the 21st century, your regional geology, your customs, craft and culture. Unfamiliar types of stones, bases, accessories and materials are welcome. We are not confined to displaying viewing stones in either the traditional Japanese or Chinese manner. These are options available to us and we should respect and acknowledge the established ways of displaying stones, but they are not the only way. It is timely to explore exciting new options to create stone displays that have bases, display tables, and other accessories that reflect our regional and national arts and crafts.

by Severa Disingrini, Italy

During my hikes along the sandy banks of the Po River (Lombardy, Italy), I often find stones with abstract and curious shapes. This stone is completely natural; it has only been cleaned of sand and the small pebbles that filled its cavities. 



The base was designed and intended in a minimal way to leave space and light only for the unusual shapes of this stone, which measures: H 23 cm, W 22 cm, D 6 cm. It is in the collection of Severa Disingrini.