Antique Style Side Table in Carved Teak - Distressed Cream and Silver

Antiquing a new piece is easy to do and hard to do well, and the difference is entirely about where the wear goes.

Real furniture does not wear evenly. It wears where hands touch it - around the drawer pulls, along the front edge of the top, on the outer face of a corner that people brush past. It wears where cloth has passed over it a thousand times. It does not wear in the middle of a flat panel, or inside a recess, or on the underside of a moulding, because nothing ever touches those places.

So our finishers do not scatter distressing across a surface. They rub back at the points a hand would have reached for over decades, and leave the sheltered areas alone. On this table that means the raised centres of the acanthus scrolls, the leading edge of the top, the area around each drawer front's centre - and nowhere else.

The colour underneath matters too. Where a real finish has worn through, you see the ground beneath it, not bare wood - so the cream is laid over a warmer tone and it is that tone which shows through, rather than raw teak.

The test is simple. If you can look at the piece and believe every worn spot was made by a person, it has been done properly. If a worn patch is somewhere no hand could reach, it has not.

Material: Solid teak throughout - case, both drawer boxes and bombe fronts, top, carved corner supports, apron and feet. No veneer over engineered board.

Construction: Bombe drawer fronts shaped from solid stock, carved acanthus corner supports running from shoulder to scrolled feet, carved scroll apron, hand-painted gilt ornament on the fronts and top.

Finish: Cream ground over a warmer tone with silver-gold worked over and rubbed back at natural wear points. Level of distressing chosen by you, or omitted entirely.

Storage: Two drawers. Counts, depths and internal fittings are configurable.

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

Available: Singly or as a matched pair.

Made: Handcrafted Indian luxury, produced to order by master Indian artisans.

A hand-finished surface with rubbed-back highlights cannot take a wrap that grips, so the layer laid directly against this table is soft, lint-free and applied without tension - nothing that could burnish the silver-gold or polish the distressing away at a contact point.

Contoured foam then follows the bombe front continuously, since a swelling face has no flat area to rest against.

The carved acanthus supports project at the shoulders and turn outward into feet at floor level, so each is sleeved along its full length with a rigid guard at the foot. They stand beyond the case footprint and meet doorframes first.

The painted ornament on the top is at the most exposed surface of the piece and is protected with an additional pad over the centre panel.

Both drawers are removed or secured shut. The table then goes into a rigid outer carton braced internally. Ordered as a pair, each is crated separately. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed.

Free delivery is included anywhere in India, with no distance surcharge and nothing added at the end. Metros, tier-two cities and smaller towns are served on the same terms, and a pair ships on the same free terms as a single table.

Production begins once your dimensions, drawer layout, ornament, level of distressing and finish are confirmed in writing. The ground, the colour, the painted ornament and the rubbing back are separate stages that each need curing time, so we give you an honest timeline and keep you updated as it progresses.

We dispatch through carriers experienced with hand-finished and carved furniture, and send tracking details as soon as it leaves us.

On arrival our team brings the table in, positions it, checks it stands true and that the drawers run cleanly, and removes all packaging. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed - if anything is not right, tell us and we will resolve it.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the case, both drawer boxes and their bombe fronts, the carved corner supports, the apron and the feet.

The corner supports are structural as well as decorative. Each runs as a single carved member from the shoulder of the case down into the foot, so the front of the table is tied together by them rather than having separate legs applied to a box - which is what allows the base to be open and the piece to stay rigid.

The bombe fronts are shaped from solid teak rather than bent and faced, so nothing can lift along the curve.

The teak carries a lifetime warranty against termite damage for as long as you own the piece, from the oils in the timber rather than the finish over them.

If anything covered needs attention, send us your order details and photographs and our artisans will handle the repair or replacement.