French Antique Limestone Slab

A French antique limestone slab in soft gray and chalky cream, speckled with warm taupe minerals and opened up by natural pores and small voids. A deep fissure crosses the broad face, and the perimeter is heavily fractured, leaving a jagged edge all the way around. It is an expressive piece: the breaks are the design, and a sawn edge would have made it a lesser thing.

It measures 50 5/8 inches wide, 35 inches deep and 5 1/4 inches high. The fissure and the broken edges are as found and we have not filled them; if you want the slab stabilized for a tabletop, your fabricator can bed it to a steel frame. It is French limestone and has been outdoors, so the surface is matte and takes light softly. It ships on a pallet.

On a custom steel frame it makes an oversized coffee table, or a stone table for a loggia. Under a wood-burning firebox it is a heat-resistant hearth apron, and outdoors it is a wide plinth that links house and garden. Smooth plaster and wide oak boards set off the fractured edge. This limestone slab is in Marina Del Rey, where you can run your hand along the fissure; or we will send close photographs and a quote.