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Why rocks on the roof?

LB — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:02:24 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but please educate me – is there a non-aesthetic purpose for this, or is it just cool? We don’t have this where I come from. Does it stop water from flowing quickly off the roof, or prevent something from running around up there, or discourage sunbathing, or what does it do, exactly?

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I would like a Smithsonian rock collection

LB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:18:31 +0000

I was in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History this past week. My childhood fetish for rock-collecting came back in a rush, and the Minerals and Fossils sections filled me with a deep hankering to build my own rock display.

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Livingstones, a sort of minimalist Flintstones

LB — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:05:06 +0000

This is the one kind of pillow you actually can’t have too many of. The pillow rocks, called Livingstones, are by Smarin, a French design company named for designer Stephanie Marin.

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