Chinese Root Wood Table

The roots kept growing in every direction and somebody put a top on them anyway.

This root wood table comes from China. Root furniture has a long history in China, where gnarled roots were prized for looking like they had been shaped by nature rather than by hand. Here a mass of twisting root has been cleaned, smoothed and polished to a deep, glowing amber and red. Ridged grain swirls and flows down into three uneven legs, with knotty burls bulging near the top. The flat surface follows the root's own irregular outline. It is 21 inches wide, 15 deep and 24.75 high.

Hard to imagine a table with more personality, or fewer straight lines.