Indonesian Wood Table Base

The tree handled the design. The tabletop is still pending.

This table base comes from Borneo, Indonesia, and is made of dungun wood. Dungun is a dense tropical hardwood, and the woods of Borneo have long served islanders for houses, boats and furniture. Here the timber keeps its natural shape, with walls that bend and fold like a curtain in a light wind. A heavy swelling knot of wood bulges from one side, and the grain swirls in honey and brown tones across the surface. Forty-seven inches long and fifteen and a half high.

It came with its own ideas about straight lines.