French Antique Limestone Slab

A French antique limestone slab with a top worn smooth as suede and sides that stayed rough and dark. The face is a soft cream with sandy and gray variation, sun-washed and matte, and it catches daylight gently. Around the edges the stone becomes darker and more rugged, the craggy sides of a block that spent a long time in the open. The contrast between the two surfaces changes as you walk around it.

It measures 47 3/4 inches wide, 39 1/4 inches deep and 7 3/4 inches high. It is one piece, with the thickness to stand on the floor on its own or on a low base. Condition is as found, with the weathered sides left untouched and the top as the years made it. It ships on a pallet and is set by forklift, or by a mason with rollers where access is tight.

It makes a hearth stone where the pale top reads against a dark firebox, a vanity top in a large bathroom on a base of oak or iron, or a plinth for heavy pottery in a courtyard. On a steel frame it is a stone table for a loggia. This limestone slab is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; see it by appointment, or ask for more photographs and a delivered quote.