Limestone Basin

A limestone basin, a broad stone vessel with a simple silhouette and the plain, grounded presence that large pieces of limestone have. There is no ornament; the form is a wide basin with thick walls, and the natural color and surface of the stone do the work. Its scale is what you notice first, and its restraint is what lets it sit beside many kinds of architecture.

It measures 68 1/2 inches long, 34 inches from front to back and 24 1/2 inches high. We selected it as a garden piece: a planting vessel, a water basin or a standing architectural element, depending on the site. It is very heavy and travels on a pallet, to be set by crane or forklift.

A basin of this size belongs in a larger garden, where it can hold a tree at the end of a gravel walk, sit among mature planting as a stone trough planted with herbs, or take a spout and become the reservoir of a courtyard fountain. The stone vessel is in our yard in Marina Del Rey; come and see it, or ask us for photographs and a delivered price.