At nearly $2million, no wonder it’s petrified!
Rare wooden bath leads the stand-out products at INDEX – The interior design exhibition, which got underway earlier this week (running 26-29th March 2018).
This 180-million-year-old petrified wood bath is aiming to become the most expensive bath ever sold. Designer-cum-explorer Nigel Fenwick is displaying this ultra-rare gem-stone embalmed bath carved from an ancient log he found deep in the Indonesian rainforest in Dubai this week.
Fenwick is hoping to smash the world-record sum of $1.7million paid for a bath of similar ilk sold in the Emirate in 2011, with his heart set on draining one well-heeled bather for almost $2million (AED 7.35million).
He said:
“The story behind this beautiful and extremely rare bathtub reveals a dramatic and risky journey in pursuit of the most perfect piece of art. Petrified wood is one of the rarest and most beautiful raw materials in the world and believed by many to have incredible therapeutic and healing properties, even having the power to extend your life.”
