Limestone Fireplace Mantel

A new limestone fireplace mantel on a monumental scale, with massive S-curved corbel legs and a deeply arched firebox opening. The header is made of heavy tiered mouldings that step out into a broad top shelf, and the legs sweep from squared base blocks up to the underside of the shelf in one fluid line, giving the whole piece a thick, rounded profile. The stone is warm beige and pale sand, fine-grained, with natural mottling and faint pitting across the surface.

It measures 73 inches wide, 18 1/2 inches deep and 74 1/2 inches high, with an opening 52 inches wide and 56 1/2 inches to the top of the arch. This is new stone, selected from the European workshop that supplies our new French mantels, and the profile can be made to a custom opening. It ships in several pieces with a setting drawing; the hearth beneath it should be sized for the weight.

It belongs in an estate living room, a great hall with a ceiling of fourteen feet or more, or a wide reception room over wide-plank oak or a limestone floor in a Versailles pattern. The limestone fireplace mantel is in our Marina Del Rey showroom; visit by appointment or ask for photographs and a delivered price.