Indonesian Stool / Side Table

Sit down carefully. It was a tree once, but has since turned to stone.

This stool or side table is a block of petrified wood from Indonesia, of indeterminate age. Petrified wood is timber whose fibers were replaced by minerals over a very long time underground, and the country's deposits are popular with furniture makers for that reason. Pale tan bark runs down the sides in long ridges, with white flecks throughout and a rusty red at the foot. The flat top shows soft tree rings. Sixteen inches high, sixteen wide.

You will not be moving it on a whim.