Java, Indonesia
Furniture formed over
twenty million years.
Two containers — one to Australia, one to the United States. Register to see what's available for your run.
Java, Indonesia
Two containers — one to Australia, one to the United States. Register to see what's available for your run.
How this works
We run containers around commercial and trade demand. The remaining allocation is open to private buyers — which fills the container, improves freight economics for everyone, and means you get access to trade-grade sourcing and Java-direct selection that isn't available any other way.
Petrified wood is stone. It weighs what stone weighs. Freight is shared across a full container — trade and private orders together — which is why white-glove delivery to your door is included in every price. That's the economics of doing it this way.
No two pieces are alike. The colour, rings and grain are decided by nature, not a factory. We can supply whites, pinks, blacks and mixed mineral tones to suit your space — you choose from what's available when your run is confirmed.
The Collection
Four standard forms, available in white, pink, black and mixed mineral tones — plus custom and bespoke work for architects, designers and commercial projects.
Real mineral — JavaHand-carved from a single solid piece of mineralised wood. Sizes from 20cm to 50cm across. Interior polished to reveal the mineral rings — no two are the same inside or out.
Blackened steel baseA single cross-section slice on a minimal blackened steel rod base. Top diameter 35–45cm, height 45–50cm. We photograph the actual slab earmarked for you before it ships — you approve it.
60–120kg — freight includedA larger slab on a blackened steel cross-base. Top 60–90cm across, height 38–42cm. These weigh 60–120kg — white-glove delivery into your home, positioned where you want it, is included.
No base — you build itThe slab itself — polished on one face, natural edge, no base. For those who want to build their own piece or integrate it into an existing structure. Every slab photographed individually.
Custom — trade enquiryBenchtops, feature walls, dining tables to size, and large-format commercial pieces. We work directly with architects and designers on briefs — specific dimensions, tones, and quantities.
Enquire via trade →The Material
Buried trees in Java's river basins were replaced cell by cell with mineral silica over 20–40 million years. The result keeps the original wood grain, growth rings and knots — but the substance is now closer to quartz than timber.
It won't rot, fade, warp or burn. The mineral pattern was fixed before anything walked on two legs. What you buy is roughly what it will look like in fifty years.
Each piece is cut, polished and based by hand in the same yard where it was quarried in Java, Indonesia.
Why Java, specifically
Petrified wood exists on every continent. The reason we source exclusively from Java comes down to geology that no other deposit replicates simultaneously.
Twenty million years ago, ancient dipterocarp forests — dense tropical hardwoods with intricate cellular anatomy — were buried rapidly under volcanic ash from the eruptions that shaped Java's river basins. The ash was silica-rich. The burial was sudden and oxygen-free. The result was a near-perfect mineralisation environment: silica dissolved from the tuffaceous rock, infiltrated the wood cell by cell, and recrystallised over millions of years into chalcedony and quartz.
The cellular complexity of a tropical hardwood — growth rings, vessel patterns, ray cells — is preserved at a resolution that softwood specimens from Arizona or fragment-scale finds from Madagascar simply can't match. And at a scale, logs recovered at three, four, five metres, that makes furniture-grade pieces possible without compromise. A 2021 study in Scientific Reports confirmed this silicification process at the Jasinga deposit in West Java, tracing it directly to Pliocene volcanic sedimentary rock — the same geology that underlies the deposits we source from.
Before you register
Natural stone can't be run like a factory. No two pieces are identical in colour, ring pattern or exact dimension — and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can always guarantee: the base style you chose and the colour family stay true to what you signed up for.
What changes is how close we can get to showing you your specific stone before final payment, and that depends on where you are in the process.
We'll show you the individual stone earmarked for you — dimensions, mineral pattern, finish — before we ask for anything else. You approve it or you don't. Your deposit comes back either way.
You'll receive real photos from the actual run — representative of what you'll receive. We can't always guarantee a photo of your single exact slab given the volume involved, but nobody pays in full until they've seen enough to be genuinely satisfied.
After you join the waitlist, you'll be asked whether you'd like to secure your allocation with a refundable deposit — AU$150 or US$99.
Current Run
Tell us what you're after. We'll send through the available pieces from your container run — photos, dimensions, mineral tones. No prior commitment required.
Which piece? (required)Which colour? (required)Every piece is shaped by nature — pick the tone family closest to what you want and we'll match you to real stock.
Which container? (required)One email when we're ready to show you what's available. Nothing else.
Something specific in mind? Send us a photo, a reference, or just describe what you're after.
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The material, how pricing works, what happens with your deposit, delivery, trade partnerships — all answered plainly.