Indonesian Wood Side Table

Grayish, silky and heavy as a boulder, because that is roughly what it is now.

This side table comes from Java, Indonesia, in petrified wood with a stainless steel base. Petrified wood begins as a fallen tree, buried and slowly mineralized until the wood itself has become stone, with bark, grain and rings still legible. Indonesia supplies much of what furnishes modern interiors. This broad slab has a smooth gray and taupe top with soft ring patterns, and a thick, coarse edge in brown and cream. Mirror-polished uprights join a crossed stretcher. Twenty-six and a half inches long, twenty-three deep.

It makes every other table look as if it just arrived.