I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO PREMISE HOW THIS FIREPLACE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED IN A SITUATION OF NOT VERY GOOD LIGHT AND ALSO AGAINST A CHROMATIC BACKGROUND THAT SEEMS TO MINGLE WITH THOSE REFINED SHADES OF GRAY AND PINK THAT ITS DUQUESA PINK MARBLE CONTAINS .
IN SHORT, DE VISU THIS MANTEL WILL SEEM DECIDEDLY MORE FASCINATING TO YOU.
CLASSIC POMPADOUR GALBE' MODEL IN PINK DUQUESA MARBLE (MARBLE OF PYRENEAN ORIGIN, NO LONGER QUARRIED), NAPOLEON III PERIOD.
Its pink background color (with lobster tones) is, along with black, the color most sought after by customers all over the world (there is no longer a difference, what they covet in Rome, the English, Americans or Russians also desire... This trend, right or wrong, is the result of globalization).
Too bad, however, that the stonemasons of the time did not know how things would turn out and continued, undaunted, to make chimneys mostly in Bianco Carrara (back then the bourgeoisie of the time desired them that way, what can you do..).
All this tirade to convey to you how such a fireplace, carved in a color that takes the hearts of our women (and their architect accomplices..), generally costs a little more than an identical specimen made in White Carrara marble. Whereas we, in the motto of my friend Benini “No one gives, we make do,” offer it at the same price as its white-clad brethren.
PERFECT PRESERVATION, GOOD PATINA, PROVENANCE PARIS, CONSTRUCTION PERIOD II HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
