Antique Granite Blocks

Antique granite blocks, salvaged in Europe and sold by the piece: long, heavy, and split rather than sawn, so each face keeps the sharp fracture of the day it came off the parent rock. The color is steel gray running to a weathered taupe, with the odd rust-colored vein where iron in the stone has oxidized. The broken texture holds deep shadow in its crevices, and the stone stays cool to the hand even in the sun.

Sizes vary from block to block, in length, depth and height, so we measure what is in the yard when you ask rather than quote a standard. Granite is dense and very heavy; the blocks travel on pallets and are set with a machine. They do not mind frost.

Lay a row of them as a low seat wall at the edge of a terrace, use a single long one as a plinth for a planted trough, or edge a pond with them so the moss can climb the rough base and settle the stone into the soil. Blackened steel sits well with the dark mineral specks. Tell us what you are building and we will send dimensions and photographs of the granite blocks on hand, or come and pick them out in Marina Del Rey.