Antique Bed Design in Carved Teak - Vine Carving with Tufted Panels

Vine and fruit carving has always meant plenty and continuity, which is why it turns up on furniture intended to pass down a family rather than to be replaced. A vine bears every year without being replanted, and carvers reached for it whenever a piece was meant to say permanence.

What makes it difficult is that a vine cannot be laid out on a grid. Real growth is irregular - it bunches where a stem forks, thins along a run, doubles back when it meets an edge - and a carver who spaces the leaves evenly produces a border instead of a plant. So the design has to be drawn freehand at full size and then cut freehand too.

Our master Indian artisans deliberately make the two halves balance without mirroring. A perfectly symmetrical vine looks manufactured; one where the left has three fruit clusters and the right has two, at slightly different heights, looks alive. It is more difficult to design and considerably more difficult to carve, and it is the entire reason this bed does not look machine-made.

Material: Solid teak throughout, including headboard, footboard, rails and the bedside chests.

Headboard: Sprawling vine carving with lobed leaves and fruit clusters across the crest, crystal-buttoned shield panel above and a wide arched buttoned panel below, curving onto a beaded rail.

Footboard: Deep buttoned panel spanning the width in a moulded and beaded border, vine carving running the full width above it, carved corner uprights.

Upholstery: Shown in cream with crystal studs; any fabric and colour, with crystal, fabric-covered or metal buttons.

Finish: Antique bronze with paler raised leaves and dark hollows, and available in gold, silver, champagne, ivory or natural teak tones.

Bedside chests: White drawer fronts, carved corner posts, moulded tops. Included as shown, available in any quantity.

Storage: Available with hydraulic lift-up storage or base drawers designed in.

Sizes: Custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

Vines and fruit clusters project further from the frame than almost any other carving, and they project unevenly, so this bed is packed to its actual profile rather than to a standard shape. Foam is cut to fit around each leaf group and fruit cluster, supporting them without pressing on the tips.

The crest, where the vine stands highest above the frame, is given a rigid shell of its own.

Buttoned panels are bagged in breathable covers and the crystal studs kept clear of any pressure across their faces. The bronze finish is covered in a soft non-abrasive layer first.

The beaded borders around the panels are edge-guarded along their length, since bead moulding chips easily at its high points. Rails are bundled, fittings pouched, chests packed with drawers secured and corner posts protected. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here is of the actual bed before packing - not a render.

Delivery is free anywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted, with no freight, packing or handling charge added later.

Production begins once your size, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing. We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs of your own bed as the vine is drawn out at full size and then carved - because it is freehand, your bed's vine will not be identical to the one shown, and watching it develop is part of the pleasure.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: headboard and footboard joined to the rails, everything levelled to your floor, the carving and upholstery checked over, and the bedside chests placed where you want them. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right, tell us and we will make it right.

The solid teak frame and joinery are covered for 20 years - the headboard structure, the footboard, the side rails, the corner uprights and every joint between them. Vine carving is cut into and out of the frame itself rather than applied to it, so the frame is doing structural and decorative work at once, and it is built accordingly.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with it for as long as the bed is yours, backed by teak's own resistance and confirmed in writing.

Because every vine on this bed is freehand, no two are identical - which makes it worth knowing that we photograph and record your bed's carving along with its specification, so any later repair or refinishing follows what is actually there. Upholstery can be renewed to the original buttoning grid and the finish re-laid. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain it before starting.