Antique Style Centre Table in Carved Teak with Gilded Base

This table curves both ways, and the inward curves at the waist are far harder to make than the outward ones.

Any moulding run around a convex curve is comparatively forgiving - the tool sits on the outside of the shape, and there is always room behind it. On a concave curve the tool has to work inside the hollow, and the sole of a normal moulding tool bridges across the hollow instead of following it. The result is a moulding that goes shallow through the tightest part of the waist and then deepens again, so the profile appears to thin out exactly where the design draws the eye.

The workshop answer is a second tool. The same profile is filed into a blade with a narrow curved sole, made to sit inside a radius tighter than the tightest point on the table, so it stays in contact with the wood the whole way through the hollow.

The moulding is then run in two passes - the convex sections with one tool, the concave with the other - and the join between them is worked out by hand until a finger cannot find the change. Two tools, one profile, and no visible transition anywhere around the table.

Structure: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans, with traditional joinery at every junction.

Top: waisted shaped outline with a pale field, trailing vine detail, two inset circular carved panels and a marbled border.

Sides: raised carved lattice between marbled pilasters, with a panelled centre.

Base: continuous gilded acanthus scroll base running around the full outline.

Finish: hand-applied pale body with a marbled banding tone and gilded carving. All tones are set by you, and a single-tone finish is available.

Size: custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

Photography: images on this page are of the actual product, not renders.

A waisted outline has no straight side to brace against, so this table is packed inside a shaped former cut to follow its own curve rather than in a plain rectangular box liner.

The gilded scroll base is the widest and lowest element and takes the most protection: a continuous foam band follows it around the whole outline, with deeper collars at the corner scrolls that project furthest.

The lattice sides are covered with a continuous foam strip so pressure is spread rather than landing on the raised ribs, and a soft non-abrasive layer goes over every painted and gilded surface first, laid smoothly with no folds. A rigid panel is fitted over the top, bearing on the marbled border rather than the inset panels. Corrugated panels build the outer shell, the base is blocked and braced, and the carton is edge-reinforced. Everything unwraps by hand.

Free PAN-India delivery is included in the price - no zone rates, no distance surcharge, no freight line at checkout. The table costs the same delivered to Mangaluru as to Moradabad.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. It leaves in multi-layer protective packaging, travels with handlers briefed on painted and gilded finishes, and is checked at every transfer point. If anything is not right when you open it, tell us and we make it right - the guarantee sits with us, not with the transporter.

Because the table is made to order, production begins once your size and finish tones are confirmed in writing. A shaped outline like this takes longer to cut and mould than a plain one, and the finish is applied in a fixed sequence with curing time between stages, so we give you a realistic timeline and a dispatch note with an expected delivery window.

The solid teak structure and its joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the shaped body and its waist, the lattice sides, the pilasters, and the gilded scroll base with the joints tying it to the body. If a joint opens or a member fails within those twenty years, we repair or replace it.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs alongside it and never expires. Teak's natural oils are what termites avoid, and our seasoning and finishing routine is built around preserving them, so the timber is guaranteed for as long as the table is yours.

A waisted body is narrower at its middle than at its ends, which means the frame is doing more work at that point than a straight-sided table ever has to. That is precisely what a twenty-year term is written for. All of it is built from start to finish in our own workshop by the master Indian artisans who make everything we sell, from timber we season ourselves.