One-of-a-Kind 191 – An extraordinary designer dining table carved from a single piece of burl wood
Unique Piece 191 was crafted from a 3,700-year-old Ancient Kauri root slab—originally grown as a single piece and measuring 280 × 210 cm—and was transformed into a 280 × 100 cm sculptural designer dining table. The 8-cm-thick tabletop features embedded amber, preserved root sections, and an extraordinary internal structure that has developed within the material over millennia. As a collectible design object, the piece combines functional art with the spatial impact of a standalone piece of designer furniture.
A one-of-a-kind, unique design piece for architectural living spaces and private collections.
A collector's item shaped by nature's topography
Unique burl wood table featuring a cartographic landscape of materials and amber
The surface of this one-of-a-kind burl wood table resembles a natural landscape. Light-colored burl sections are surrounded by dark amber and resin zones, forming patterns reminiscent of archipelagos, coastlines, or geological maps.
This landscape of materials, which resembles a map, was not designed but emerged from the naturally grown root structure. It is precisely this that gives this unique design object its special quality.
Inner Worlds of Materials
A unique landscape of open root spaces and deep zones
Many areas of the tabletop offer a view deep into the interior of the original root structure. Amber, bark, natural cavities, and preserved root sections reveal the internal architecture of this millennia-old, finite material.
Individual root structures appear like exposed fragments of a hidden landscape. This creates an extraordinary sense of depth in the material.
What appears to be a landscape is the memory of the growth of a tree that is thousands of years old.
Nature's Creative Power
Functional art made from organic material structures
The extraordinary effect of this dining table stems from the patterns of the wood grain, amber-colored areas, intergrown sections, and natural voids in the wood. Together, they create a unique visual language that is virtually impossible for humans to replicate or reproduce.
Many sections are reminiscent of aerial photographs, geological structures, or cartographic landscapes, giving the work its unique place somewhere between a sculptural collector's item, functional art, and exclusive collectible design.
Workflow
From solid root wood to a high-quality design piece
The original root slab, measuring 280 × 210 cm, already exhibited the open root cavities, amber zones, and internal structures that would later come to define the work. The photographs taken during the creative process document this state and reveal that the characteristic material landscape was already present in the original formation.
The artisanal craftsmanship in the studio transforms this existing structure into a sculptural design object without fundamentally altering its natural character.
Unique Piece 139 serves as an example of the journey from the site where it was found to the finished work.
Certificate of Age & Provenance
A collector's item with 3,700 years of material history
A material sample from Unikat 191 was analyzed at the Leibniz Laboratory for Age Determination and Isotope Research at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel. The dating results indicate that the ancient kauri wood used is approximately 3,700 years old.
The scientifically documented origin is part of the work's provenance and makes it possible to trace the historical depth of this unique natural material.
Spatial Context
Sculptural dining table for exclusive architectural living spaces
With its elongated shape and distinctive material texture, Unikat 191 functions as both a sculptural dining table and a standalone architectural collector’s piece. In minimalist living spaces, libraries, private collections, or high-end gallery interiors, the light-colored root sections and dark shadow zones stand out particularly clearly.
As a high-quality piece of designer furniture, this work combines the practical function of a dining table with the spatial presence of functional art. In the international collectibles context, it occupies a space between sculptural furniture, functional art, and a sculptural dining table.
Unique Item No. 191
A unique designer table crafted from an extraordinary root formation
Unikat 191 is a one-of-a-kind piece that captures an extraordinary, naturally formed ancient kauri root formation—grown in a single piece—featuring embedded amber, open root cavities, and a naturally formed material landscape. The combination of scientifically dated provenance, naturally formed topography, and artisanal craftsmanship makes this work a unique collectible design object by Beaupoil.
