Indonesian Teak Root Table

The tree did the hard part. The frame just holds it up.

This teak root table comes from Java, Indonesia, and is contemporary. It is teak wood. Teak has been grown and worked on Java for centuries, and today's workshops there turn dense root and stump wood, with all its knots and burls, into furniture that keeps the shape of the tree. A thick slab, ringed with orange and brown grain, sits with its splits and rough live edges intact. The plain rectangular base is black. Nearly 22 inches high and 20.5 deep.

It has no two sides alike, and has never apologized for it.