Oh my, that is so beautiful. But it's really hard to find more info about these countertops on the Kohler website. Anyone have a direct link?

Unique to be sure but it's not exactly calling my name. I'd like to see it up close & personal. Til then the jury's still out.

Wow, I really like this. Looks like the wood is sort of suspended within another substance, I'd want to know what that material is.

Maybe a resin?

Do you have any idea how rare petrified wood is? This is a natural resource that should be protected - much like an endangered animal. Humans. You build yourself a house that will last 30 years tops, and you want to put a petrified wood counter top inside? How wasteful.

I love how pretty and unusual it is but I also question it like SWANN.

Not only petrified wood is rare, but I thought it was actually illegal to harvest/sell it? Like it's only found in national parks, at least in the US, and as such shouldn't be used commercially? And if it comes from abroad, it's likely its importation is damaging some natural resources.
Yes, it's beautiful, but it sounds like one of those things only the ultra wealthy could afford, and at the detriment of ecology.

I want a counter made of Bald Eagle Beaks and Elephant Tusks ;)

Um, it's not really all that rare - it's not like they're making counters out of dinosaur bones. When I went to Petrified Forest NP in Arizona as a kid, the National Park Service itself was selling hunks of it off as souvenirs. It looks like what they're doing here is slicing off very thin slices of a petrified wood trunk and suspending it in something to make the counters - which means you're not even using all that much wood.

With respect to the aesthetics, it's not my style but it is interesting, and I could see how it would look lovely in the right kitchen.

I don't think Ann Sacks is part of Kohler, so it's no surprise that Eebisme was having trouble. Here's the Ann Sacks site: http://www.annsacks.com/onlinecatalog/program.jsp?cat=268004&coll=268504&prg=3124704

I was hoping that this was just a look inspired by petrified wood. Ann Sacks's site says: "Each piece of our Petrified Wood tiles displays the unique knots and rings that characterized an individual tree; no two are the same and the end result is a lustrous, exotic look that is incredibly durable and rare." That sounds like they want you to believe it's real petrified wood, but it's just vague enough to make me wonder -- kind of like "Naugahyde displays the look and feel of fine Corinthian leather." In any case, it starts at $222.30 a square foot, so one hopes they won't be selling a lot of it. And I'm sure that for the people who buy it, preserving natural resources is a bug, not a feature.

I think it's real petrified wood, so it is probably sourced outside the US where the only "deposits" I know of are protected.

Petrified wood is no longer wood. The actual wood was replaced over time in geologically mysterious ways with minerals in such a way that the appearance of the original wood remains but it's in solid rock.

This product resembles things I have seen made from thin (1/8-1/4 inch thick) slices of agate or geode, embedded in some kind of hard resin. (I wonder if it's the same thing holding quartz countertops together?)