Indonesian Wood Palm Pot

Taller than most visitors, and polished to a shine that shows the room back to itself.

This palm pot comes from East Java, Indonesia, and is contemporary, in palm wood. Palm wood is cut from the dense outer trunk of the tree, and its fine, close-set fibers give turned pieces a distinctive streaked grain. The vessel is a long, gently tapering cylinder that rounds off at the base like a seed pod. The surface is a deep chocolate brown, with fine vertical lines of grain visible under a high gloss. The rim is plain and slightly narrower than the body below. It is 79 inches high and 27 in diameter.

A floor vase with ambitions toward the ceiling.