Baroque Bed in Carved Teak - Gold Finish with Greek Key Borders

The Greek key is about three thousand years old and it has outlasted every style that borrowed it, because it does something no curve can: it draws a hard, repeating line that the eye reads as a boundary. Classical builders used it exactly where one surface ended and another began.

Putting it on a baroque bed is not a contradiction - it is the reason the bed works. Baroque ornament is all movement, and movement without an edge becomes noise. The squared meander at the footboard corners and foot blocks says where the design stops, and every scroll inside it becomes more legible as a result.

Carving a meander is deceptively difficult. It is a single line turning at right angles, and the eye counts the intervals whether it means to or not, so any variation in the width of the band or the spacing of the turns shows up immediately. Our master Indian artisans set it out with a marked gauge and cut it in passes along the whole band, rather than completing one turn at a time - which is how the rhythm stays exact.

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

Headboard: Tiered pierced scrollwork crest with a central carved urn on a fluted stem and carved urns on the outer posts, two buttoned upholstered panels beneath either side of a carved centre stem.

Footboard: Two buttoned panels under a carved crest of scroll and flowers with a central urn, Greek key borders carved in relief at both ends and on the foot blocks.

Upholstery: Shown in soft gold, and made in any fabric and colour you choose.

Finish: Shown in gold, and available in silver, antique bronze, ivory or natural teak tones.

Bedside chests: Carved panelled fronts with Greek key detail and carved feet. 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.

Three carved urns standing above a pierced crest are the highest and most exposed parts of this bed, so each is packed in its own shaped foam shell and supported from below, with nothing bearing on the carved tops.

The pierced tiers of the crest are foam-faced from both sides, so every cut-through section is held rather than left free to flex. Gilded surfaces are covered first in a soft non-abrasive layer, because gold leaf marks under friction.

The Greek key borders stand in relief along the frame, and relief bands are easily bruised at their edges, so they are edge-guarded along their full length.

Buttoned panels are bagged in breathable covers. Rails are bundled, fittings sealed in a labelled pouch, and the chests packed with drawers secured and carved feet collared. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here is of the actual bed, taken before packing - not a render.

Delivery is free anywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted. Nothing for freight, packing or handling is added later, whatever the distance.

Production starts 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 crest is pierced, the urns carved and the gilding laid.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: headboard raised and joined to the rails, footboard fitted, everything levelled to your floor, and the bedside chests placed. Tell us your ceiling height and access when you order, since the crest is tall. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right when you see it, tell us and we will make it right.

The solid teak frame and joinery are covered for 20 years, and on this bed that matters most in the crest: a tiered, largely pierced structure carrying three carved urns has to be jointed so the load runs down through solid sections to the posts. It is built that way, and guaranteed as such.

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.

Gilding can be cleaned back and re-laid whenever you want it refreshed, and the buttoned panels re-covered to the same grid. Because we hold the specification of your exact bed on file, anything made later - a replacement fitting, an extra chest, a matching dresser - is made to fit it precisely. Our own master Indian artisans do the work, and we set out what it involves and how long it takes before we begin.