Photographed by Sara Hana
Travel photo courtesy of subject
CRUISING ALTITUDE
The iconic Duomo di Milano in Italy When it comes the business of natural stone, Kourosh Fatemi, CEO of TEMMER Marble (temmermarble.com), supplies some of the best in the market. Here, we travel all over the world to visit all the places the business of stone takes him.
Kourosh Fatemi and his associate in front of the TEMMER showroom at Marble Izmir: Natural Stone and Technologies Fair in 2022
Photographed by Sara Hana
Travel photo courtesy of subject
1. IZMIR, TURKEY
May 2022
The Fuar Izmir Exhibition Centre in Izmir, Turkey, hosts Marble Izmir, one of the most important natural stone and technology fairs in the world. Hosted in a country with the highest marble reserves and a high degree of diversity, the fair brings in thousands of visitors, including contractors, architects, project managers and the like. The TEMMER team attends every year with a handsomely extravagant display of over 200 variations of natural stone.
The iconic Duomo di Milano in Italy Photographed by Sara Hana TRAVEL PHOTO COURTESY OF SUBJECT
2. MILAN
December 2021
“It’s always fun to visit clients, especially in places like Milan,” says Fatemi. “If I’m already traveling, I’ll make a stop.” These particular clients who Fatemi visited in 2021 buy TEMMER projects to then re-export them to the U.S.
The group on the VIP TEMMER tour in front of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Photographed by Sara Hana
Photo courtesy of subject
3. ISTANBUL
October 2021
Last fall, Fatemi and a select few other guests got the chance to visit Turkey’s largest city and financial center for a TEMMER VIP tour of the facilities for Natural Stone Institute of America, as well as other well-known U.S. companies’ executives in the natural stone industry.
A private home in Dubai, dripping in gold and TEMMER marble Photographed by Sara Hana
Photo courtesy of subject
4. DUBAI
March 2022
“One of the most rewarding things is to see the completed projects that used my stone,” says Fatemi. “In this case, I was invited to stay in a breathtaking mansion that I supplied $10 million value of stone for. It took 10 years for it to be completed, but obviously well worth the wait.”
At this year’s event, TEMMER created a 3D installation by artist Patrik Prosko, titled “Anamorphosis.” It was constructed with 539 ancient objects from all over Istanbul, which, from a precise perspective, made up Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s face. Photographed by Sara Hana
Photo courtesy of subject
5. VERONA, ITALY
September 2021
Last year, the TEMMER Atlanta team attended Marmomac in Verona, Italy—an important world fair dedicated to the entire stone production chain, from quarry to the processed product—born in one of the main Italian districts for extraction and processing of natural stone. “We visit every year and TEMMER always has amazing representation,” says Fatemi.
