French Antique Limestone Fireplace Mantel

A French antique stone fireplace mantel with massive tapered legs and a clean, hard-edged frame. The surface is a chalky white that has peeled back in places to show raw gray limestone beneath, and deep black soot along the inner blocks keeps the record of the fires it held. The top ledge is simply rounded and carries faint traces of faded blue and green pigment. Pronounced dark joints mark out each stone block.

Overall it measures 66 5/8 inches wide, 23 3/8 inches deep and 51 1/2 inches high. The opening is 43 1/2 inches high, and the width steps from 66 5/8 inches at the shelf to 63 1/4 and 52 3/8 inches below it; the depth steps the same way, from 23 3/8 to 20 3/8 and 16 1/2 inches.

An antique limestone fireplace with this much contrast works in a minimalist interior, a modern studio, a dining room, or any room that layers natural and industrial materials: dark painted walls, polished oak, exposed brick, steel furniture. The ledge takes a simple mirror or unglazed ceramics. This stone fireplace mantel has sold. We often have similar painted and soot-marked French mantels in the yard or on the water; ask and we will send what is current.