French Antique Foundation Slab

The largest of the French antique limestone blocks we have offered as a single slab: nearly seven and a half feet long and 9 inches thick, a pale stone horizon that sits low and very heavy. The top face is a chalky gray-beige washed with warm honey and rust-toned oxidation that reads as sunbaked. The long edges keep a rough break, uneven and chipped.

It measures 89 1/2 inches long, 38 1/2 inches deep and 9 inches high. It came out of a French building. A slab of this mass is set by crane onto a prepared base, and the floor beneath it, if indoors, must be built for the load.

As a hearth landing it widens a fireplace into a stone mass that can take heat; as a threshold it turns an entry into a real transition. Outdoors it is a low plinth for a bench or a sculpture, or a flat platform for heavy pottery, and it will go on weathering. Lime plaster, rift-sawn oak and blackened steel suit the gray; unlacquered brass picks up the honey in the stone. This antique limestone slab has sold. We usually have similar limestone blocks and long slabs in the yard or on the water; ask and we will send what is current.