Limestone Fireplace Mantel

A deep new limestone fireplace mantel that balances heavy mass with fine ornament. The header has a rosette medallion at its center between recessed rectangular panels, and corner blocks above each leg carry further rosettes. The legs are S-curved corbels, each crowned with a spiral volute and trailed with acanthus leaves. The stone is a weathered gray and soft oatmeal, with a seasoned, slightly open texture across the face.

It measures 70 inches wide, 21 inches deep and 65 1/2 inches high overall, with a firebox opening 45 1/2 inches wide by 49 inches high. At 21 inches the depth is the greatest in our range; check the floor plan before you fall for it. This is new French limestone, selected from the one European workshop we use for mantels; call us for current availability, and ask if the profile needs a different opening, which adds lead time.

It wants a large living room, a formal library or an estate lounge with a high ceiling and an open plan, with dark paneling, lime plaster or a stone floor in a Versailles pattern around it. As a stone fireplace mantel it is the heaviest we carry; see this limestone fireplace mantel in Marina Del Rey, or ask us for photographs and a quote delivered and set.