Limestone Fireplace Mantel

A new limestone fireplace mantel with fluted column legs, a deep top ledge and three flowers in relief across the header, standing out softly against the vertical grooves below. The stone is warm ivory and soft cream, fine-grained, with small gray mineral flecks and faint natural pits across the face that keep it from looking too new. The mouldings are sharp and the fluting is deep enough to hold shadow.

It measures 76 5/8 inches wide and 57 1/2 inches high, with an opening 49 3/4 inches wide and 37 1/2 inches high. The shelf is 13 3/4 inches deep and the jambs project about 5 inches from the wall. This is new stone, selected from the European workshop that supplies our new French mantels; the same design can be made to a custom opening. It ships in sections with a drawing for the mason.

It frames a hearth in a library or a lounge with lime-wash plaster and dark walnut beams, and it also works as a wide shelf in a foyer or a lobby. The limestone fireplace mantel is in Marina Del Rey; see it by appointment, or we will send more photographs and a delivered figure.