Marble Fireplace

A white marble fireplace mantel with clean proportions, substantial block feet and a sharply stepped cornice, offered alongside our new limestone fireplace mantels. The design is restrained: a broad header above the opening with crisp stepped detail, and jambs that run down into sturdy feet. The marble carries soft gray and silver veining that drifts across the white like cloud, and the smooth planes reflect light gently.

It measures 73 inches wide, 10 1/4 inches deep and 59 1/2 inches high, with an opening 44 inches wide and 43 1/2 inches high. This is new stone, selected from a European workshop, and it ships in sections with a drawing for the mason. The 10 1/4 inch shelf takes a row of objects without crowding.

It suits a formal living room, a library, a bedroom or a sitting room where the fireplace carries the wall, with smooth plaster, natural oak, dark metal or textured upholstery around it; traditional interiors can use its weight, modern ones its restraint. Where a limestone fireplace mantel is warm and matte, this one is cool and smooth. The mantel is in Marina Del Rey; visit by appointment, or we will send photographs and a delivered price.