Indonesian Wood Side Table

The tree gave up being wood some time ago. The steel is very new to this.

This side table comes from Java, Indonesia, and pairs petrified wood with stainless steel. Petrified wood forms when buried timber is slowly replaced by minerals, keeping the look of bark and rings in what is now stone, and Indonesia is a well-known source of it for furniture. The top is a thick natural slab, with a bark-like edge in rust and tan and a paler polished face. Below, mirror-bright uprights meet in a crossed stretcher. Twenty-two and a half inches high.

Few side tables can say they outlasted the forest.