French Antique Foundation Slab

One of the thinner French antique limestone blocks we carry, this foundation slab is a broad plate of stone about 4 inches thick and nearly six feet long. The color is a soft greige with pale cream and muted taupe, freckled with rust-colored iron spots, and the top undulates gently with delicate pitting across it. The perimeter is heavily fractured and shows a rugged, stratified edge where the bed of the stone is visible.

It measures 71 1/2 inches long and 40 inches deep, and it runs from 4 to 4 1/2 inches thick. It came out of a French building and we have left it as found. It is thin enough to be set by two or three people with a dolly rather than by crane.

On a low steel or oak frame it makes a coffee table of serious size; on a taller base it is a dining or work table top. It also makes a fireproof pad under a freestanding wood stove, or a landing step between an interior floor and a garden. Aged wood, hand-troweled plaster, concrete and dark steel all sit well with the greige. The antique limestone slab is in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask for photographs and a delivered quote. Limestone blocks this flat do not come through often.