EditorialJacinto Gomez Sanchez, center, a cattle rancher who found the first stone slab of Sak Tz’i’, and other workers during a sudden rain at an excavation site in Chiapas, Mexico, June 13, 2022. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times)
EditorialThe $400 Steam Deck by Valve, the company known for its Steam online games store, in Oakland, Calif., July 1, 2022. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialChunks of granite from the cutting of a slab for a memorial at Domenick DeNigris Monuments & Mausoleums, which has hundreds of back orders for gravestones amid the pandemic, in New York, Feb. 11, 2022. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
EditorialCeramic modeller Gordon Brooks has made a scale model of Duchess China Works in Longton after being inspired by the history of his place of work.
Editorial“Slab” (2021), a 1990 Cadillac Brougham d’ Elegance customized by International Jones, exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., July 6, 2021. (Brian Palmer/The New York Times)
EditorialLindy Marshall on the concrete slab where her home once stood on the outskirts of Cobargo, Australia, April 30, 2020. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialSincere Austin, an employee at PMI International Stone Importers, cleans a slab in New York, March 19, 2020. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)