This table was designed especially for the Austrian World Summit 2025 in Vienna.
It has exactly 78 growth rings, representing the age of the founder of the World Summit, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The tabletop is made of oak, as Arnold Schwarzenegger is also known as the ‘Styrian Oak’.
The tables were used for the panel discussions.
The material is made from recycled aluminium.
Trees remember everything. The annual rings tell us the individual story of a tree’s life – this tree wasabout a hundred years old. The rings record the climate and conditions asthe tree was growing up. Wider rings mean that the tree had a good year, narrower rings that conditions were not so good for the tree, whatever they may have been.
Did it get plenty of light or did it grow in the shade, was there a lot of rainor sunshine? The more “annual ring calendars” from different regions and differentvarieties of trees we get to see, the more precisely we can analyze the effects of climate change. It is not only the annual rings that make fossilized trees such a pricelessarchive of climate change, but also the isotopes stored in the wood.
