French Antique Limestone Pillars

French antique stone pillars in limestone, solid and square with a gently peaked cap on each, standing 55 inches high. The stone is pale butter and dry parchment touched with gray, the surface deeply pitted and porous with ochre settled into the recesses. Edges are chipped and the faces are rough. A small iron hook is still embedded in the side of one, left from whatever hung there in the pillar's first life.

Each pillar is 19 inches square and 55 inches high, a grounded, weighty profile; the angled cap catches the light across its upper planes. They are heavy and are set with a machine onto a footing or a few inches into gravel. The tops will carry a lantern or a stone planter.

Stand them either side of a drive gate or a garden entrance, use one alone at the turn of a path as a single vertical, or set them as the two ends of a loggia in place of new limestone columns. Terracotta, aged oak, troweled plaster and darkened iron all suit the warm stone. These stone pillars are in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see them, or ask for photographs of each face and a delivered price.