Vladimir Putin's meeting table

Creation of the table has been claimed by two groups: Italian manufacturer Oak Furniture, and Spanish Vincente Zaragozá. Oak Furniture, a family-owned business from Cantù, Italy, claimed to have made the table, completing the order in 1995. This was as part of a 40–50million deal to furnish 7000 sqft over floors of the Kremlin between 1995 and 1997. Oak Furniture has also created fittings for other world leaders, including Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and royal palaces in Brunei and Thailand. The order comprised around seventy rooms, including the residence of the president. The furniture was designed in the style of the pre-1917 Kremlin: after the Russian Revolution, soviet leader Joseph Stalin removed much of the previous furniture in the rooms. The company maintains that the tabletop is made of a single piece of beech, and that it is lacquered white; it has three hollow legs, and is gold plated. According to Renato Pologna of Oak Furniture, the furniture for the deal was assembled in Italy and transported to Russia by plane: upon arrival it was scanned to prevent bugging. Pologna estimated that a similar table would cost approximately if built new in 2022. Oak Furniture produced a certificate signed by Yeltsin, and a photo of the table in a 1999 book on the Kremlin to support their claim. Spanish cabinet maker Vicente Zaragozá claimed to have made it during an interview with radio station COPE. Zaragozá is owner of an eponymous furniture company located in Alcàsser, Valencian Community, which closed down in 2020. The business made several orders of furniture for the Kremlin in the years 2002–2006, as well as for other former Soviet republics, such as for the presidency of Uzbekistan. According to Zaragozá, the table is made of Alpine white beech, inlaid with gold leaf, and was delivered to the Kremlin in 2005.