One of the reasons that people enjoy collecting antiques is that their pieces have a history, a story to them, which a lot of ultra-contemporary pieces don't have. And the older a piece of furniture is, the longer its story. A unique table owned by a couple in Colorado goes beyond antique and no doubt has a far more interesting story to tell. It is made from the
world's oldest wood, estimated to be 45,910 years old. The wood is blonde, with "lustrous finish as shiny as freshly washed glass" and originated from an ancient Kauri tree in New Zealand, although it laid buried underground (without rotting or petrifying) for centuries. The wood is hard with an amazingly fine, artful grain. The extremely rare wood from these trees is expensive to begin with, but one as old as this is pretty near to priceless.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Feb 15th 2007 7:36PM
That's what someone made with the world's oldest wood? That table seems to come from Crate and Barrel!
When a historic tree had to be cut down in Annapolis, the wood was give to a master carpenter who made an incredible desk for the Maryland Governor's office. Here, on the other hand, we have priceless wood being turned into thoroughly pedestrian artifact.
sis_soft Feb 16th 2007 7:38PM
I'm from NZ and this doesn't look like Kauri to me. It's a nice piece of furniture, but Kauri is a lot of darker than the one in the picture.
Could have been a lot of elegant too.