Baroque Dining Table Set in Carved Teak with Oval Back Chairs

Eight carved chair crests present a question our workshop answers deliberately: should they be identical, or should they merely match?

Identical is achievable. Every crest could be carved to the same template and worked to the same depth, cut for cut. It would look correct, and it would look machined, because the one thing hand carving offers that a router does not is that no two passes are the same.

So we split the difference. The silhouette is fixed absolutely: every crest is marked from a single master template, so the outline, the height and the width of all eight are the same, and a row of chairs down the table reads as one set at a glance. Within that outline, the leaf work, the depth of the undercuts and the flow of each scroll are left to the carver's hand.

Stand back and they are identical. Sit down and look at the chair next to you and it is its own carving - the leaves turn slightly differently, one scroll is cut a shade deeper. Ten years later the family knows which chair is which without ever having been told.

That is the argument for hand carving in a matched set. Uniform where uniformity matters, individual everywhere it does not.

Set: one dining table with chairs, made together as one commission.

Frames: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans.

Top: shaped along every edge, with a decorative centre inside a moulded surround over a carved frieze.

Legs: carved as outward-turning scrolls, cut from the solid.

Chairs: oval upholstered backs with foliate carved crests - silhouettes marked from one master template, leaf work carved individually by hand.

Upholstery: woven damask as photographed; any fabric or leather available.

Finish: hand-applied white with gold-picked carving; single-tone, gold, silver, walnut and natural teak also available.

Joinery: mortise and tenon throughout, corner-blocked at every seat rail.

Options: any chair count, with carvers at the ends.

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

The foliate crests are the most exposed carving on these chairs and the first thing to meet a doorway, so each is padded individually with foam formed around its own outline rather than wrapped flat against it.

Chairs are crated separately and never nested, with each upholstered oval covered in soft non-abrasive sheeting so nothing marks the damask.

The table's shaped edge is a continuous projecting profile and is padded continuously round the whole perimeter rather than at the corners only. The top travels face-protected with a rigid board; the scrolled legs are each boxed in shaped foam, since a scroll has no flat face to rest on.

Unpack the chairs first for floor space, then the table. Nothing needs dismantling and no fixing has to be undone.

Delivery is free anywhere in India for the whole set, and every piece is guaranteed to arrive dent-free. If anything is wrong when the crates are opened, correcting it is our cost, and we commit to that before you order.

Production begins once the table size, chair count, upholstery and finish are confirmed in writing. Table and chairs are made together and dispatched together so the white and gold match exactly across every piece.

Dispatch waits for the hand-applied finish to cure fully. We share the schedule at confirmation, update you as each stage completes, and send tracking as soon as the crates leave us.

Open the crates with the delivery team present and check every piece. A shaped top is wider at its curves than a plain rectangle of the same nominal size, so send us your doorway, lift and stair measurements at the order stage and we set the dimensions to a figure that will reach the room.

Every frame in the set carries a 20-year warranty on solid teak frame and joinery - the table and each chair on identical terms. The carved crests and scrolled legs are cut from the solid and are structural, so they are covered along with the rest.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs on every piece, resting on teak's own oils rather than on an applied treatment, and issued in writing with the set.

Both documents are tied to your order and handed over on delivery, so the record stays with you. If a covered fault appears on one piece, send photographs and we repair or replace that piece alone.

Upholstery and hand-applied finishes are wearing surfaces and are handled separately. We re-cover and re-finish our own furniture at any age, and the master crest template stays with your specification, so an extra chair cut years later has exactly the same silhouette as the originals.