French Antique Foundation Slab

The heaviest of the French antique limestone blocks on this page, a foundation slab 14 inches thick with two original openings cut through it and a slight depression worn into the center. The color is a cool gray and pale ash, enriched with rust-brown mineral freckles. The surface is worn and heavily pebbled in places, the sides are fractured, and deep irregular chop marks run across the stone from the day it was cut to size.

It measures 55 1/4 inches long, 50 3/4 inches deep and 14 inches high. The two openings are about 22 inches and 16 3/4 inches across; they are part of the block's first life and we have left them. It came out of a French building. A block of this mass is set by crane, and indoors only on a floor built for it.

Under a thick glass top it becomes a coffee table where the openings and the depression are the view; alone it is a low plinth for a large ceramic vessel; outdoors it is an oversized stepping platform in a gravel courtyard. The antique limestone slab is in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask us for photographs of the openings and a quote with freight. We have other limestone blocks nearby if you want a group.