Indonesian Petrified Wood Table with Custom Base

The tree stopped growing a very long time ago. Then it took up furniture.

This petrified wood table with a custom base comes from Java, Indonesia, in petrified wood and patinated steel. Petrified wood forms when minerals slowly replace the tissue of a buried tree, leaving stone that keeps the pattern of the rings, and designers prize slices of it as natural tabletops. This round is nearly black, its rings still legible, with gold and white threads circling a broken center. Slim steel rods hold it above a flat steel disc. 25 inches high, 19.75 in diameter.

Older than any argument likely to take place at it.