Weathered Stone Pedestal with Carved Ridges

A weathered stone pedestal with an hourglass profile: the body pulls in at the waist, then spreads into a heavy lobed foot. Deep vertical ridges run around the whole piece in soft, rounded grooves, so the surface is all alternating light and shadow. The color moves between a soft gray and a warm beige, with a matte face and edges that have gone round from years outdoors. The top is roughly flat, which is what makes it useful.

It measures 13 inches wide and 19 inches high, small enough to carry in and set on a floor or a deep shelf, heavy enough to stay there. It comes with the weathering, the softened ridges and the small losses that arrive with age, and those are the reason to buy it. We list it with our architectural elements, the one-off pieces we bring back from France and Belgium.

Set a planter, a bronze or a large ceramic vessel on it and let the ridged body become part of the composition. It works on a terrace against a plaster wall, inside an entry beside dark metal or old brick, or half hidden in a border where the gray reads against green. The stone pedestal is in Marina Del Rey; ask us for more photographs or a delivered price.