Walter Arnold Studio Traditional Fireplace Gallery, Stone and Marble Hand-Carved Fireplaces: Classically Trained in Italy. Made in USA and Italy.

Walter Arnold Sculptor/Stonecarver Classically Trained in Italy. Custom hand-carved stone sculpture. Made in the USA and Italy.
 
Traditional Fireplace Gallery
This tradtional, French, Louis the fifteenth-style fireplace is very common in Europe. It features a Verde Guatmala Marble. This traditional, elegantly carved fireplace mantel is carved from WHite Carrara Statuary Marble from the quarries in Italy. This classic fireplace mantel is carved in beautiful Arabescato Marble and is decorated with traditional Acanthus Leaves. This old-world style fireplace was custom-designed for a parlor. The client chose Rose, Portuguese marble and an overmantel to extend the design to the ceiling. This traditional Italian Vicenza marble fireplace mantel reflects a classic Italian-Baroque style This chimneypiece carved from antiqued white marble is designed in a renaissance style and features rosettes, acanthus leaf, scroll legs and a two laurel leaves in the center. This fireplace mantel is carved in Indiana limestone, in a tudor-style and is adorned with a row of five rosettes This fireplace carved in Indiana Limestone is designed in the Empire style and showcases classical female terms, or half figures, on the pilasters This Empire-Style fireplace mantel features scroll bracket legs and is carved in white Italian Statuary Marble from Mt. Arni in Tuscany. Indiana Limestone Traditional Romanesque Large Column Fireplace with medallions This classic revival fireplace was carved in Statuario Venato marble for the Wickham House at the Valentine Museum in Virginia. White statuary marble fireplace with griffins carved in a classical revival style. This traditional fireplace design is accented with a classical motiff in the keystone, the lion head. It is carved in Portuguese Limestone and antiqued. This Italian Art Deco fireplace mantel has motifs in the traditional, Liberty Style Thsi traditional Renaissance style fireplace is carved in Indiana Limestone and features columns and naturalistic foliage.
Traditional limestonestone and marble fireplaces

Louis XIV Fireplace
Verde Guatemala Marble
Art ID: MF-19

This Louis XIV style fireplace features acanthus brackets and laurel ornament.

Traditional Fireplace Gallery

Walter S. Arnold's fireplaces are unique works of art and artisanship, hand carved to suit the client's home. This page showcases traditional designs. These fireplaces are custom carved one at a time; the design, dimensions and type of stone are tailored to fit individual taste and budget.

Walter works closely with sources in the United States and Italy to select the appropriate type and color of marble and limestone. He individualy selects each block of stone that he carves.