Limestone Fireplace Mantel

A new limestone fireplace mantel with rosettes in relief, crisp fluting and outer edges left rough-hewn, so the piece reads as heavy blocks of pale stone stacked together. The color runs from weathered bone to warm cream and sun-bleached sand, and the finish is cool and chalky under the hand. The contrast between the rough edges and the sharp fluting is the point of the design.

It measures 77 1/2 inches wide and 56 3/4 inches high, with an opening 55 inches wide and 43 3/4 inches high; ask us for the shelf depth. This is new stone, selected from the European workshop that supplies our new French mantels, and the same design can be made to a custom opening. The mantel ships in sections with a setting drawing and suits a wood or gas fire with the appliance's clearances.

It anchors a bare wall in a minimalist living room, centers a private library, gives a large bedroom a hearth, or sits under cover on a patio or loggia with blackened steel and dark oak around it. The limestone fireplace mantel is on view by appointment in Marina Del Rey; otherwise we will send more photographs and a delivered price.