Vintage View: How to maintain a vintage marble fireplace

Kya deLongchamps explores the best way to clean and protect that gorgeous old marble fireplace surround.

IN terms of stately loveliness, an antique or vintage fireplace really has it all. If you’re lucky enough to own one or even more than one, give that proud old face the care that it deserves.

Marble is a metamorphic rock, originally a limestone. It has an open porous crystalline structure.