Limestone Fireplace Mantel

A new limestone fireplace mantel with more ornament than most: the header is covered edge to edge in a vine and scroll pattern in deep relief, gathered around a central medallion, and the shelf above it rises in several tiers of moulding finished with a row of leaves. The legs are S-curved corbels that begin in large spiral volutes and run to the floor, trailing flowers and acanthus leaves along the way. The stone is pale sand and warm parchment in color, with the small natural pits this limestone carries from the start.

It measures 68 inches wide, 18 1/2 inches deep and 61 inches high, with an opening 43 inches wide and 41 1/2 inches high. This is new stone, selected from the European workshop that supplies our new French mantels; the same profile can be made to a custom opening. It ships in sections with a drawing for the mason, and a limestone fireplace surround this deep wants a proper hearth below it.

It needs a large room: a formal living room with a coffered ceiling, a double-height hall, or a library with dark millwork and tall arched windows. Come and see the limestone fireplace mantel in Marina Del Rey, or ask us for photographs of the detail and a delivered price.