Bed with Oval Tufted Headboard in Carved Teak - Brown and Gold Set

Three panels instead of one is a compositional trick borrowed from painting: a wide centre with two narrower flanks, which is how altarpieces and folding screens have been arranged for centuries. The eye lands in the middle and then travels outward, and a wide piece of furniture stops looking like a wall.

The oval does something similar. A rectangle repeats the shape of the room and disappears into it; an oval interrupts, which is why it has been the frame of choice for anything meant to be looked at, from portraits to mirrors.

Getting three ovals to work at two different sizes is where the craft sits. Each frame is carved to its own curve, the buttoning grid inside it is set out so the diamonds stay square across a curved edge, and the gilding along the raised lip has to run unbroken around each ellipse. Our master Indian artisans lay this out full size before any wood is cut, because on a curve, a millimetre of drift is visible from across the room.

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

Headboard: Three upholstered and buttoned oval panels in carved gilded frames, pierced scroll and leaf between them, carved shell crest, moulded base rail.

Footboard: Single large buttoned oval in a carved gilded frame, figured teak side panels, carved volutes running into the feet.

Upholstery: Buttoned panels made in the fabric of your choice.

Bedside chests: Two drawers each on cabriole feet, with tall arched mirrors carved and gilded to match. Included as shown, and available in any quantity.

Finish: Shown in warm brown with hand-applied gold tipping, and available in any teak tone with gilding heavy, fine or omitted.

Storage: Built plain as shown, and available with hydraulic lift-up storage or base drawers designed in.

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

Openwork carving and upholstery are packed to different rules, and this headboard has both. The pierced scrollwork between the ovals is faced with soft foam on both sides so nothing bears on the cut-through sections, while each buttoned panel is bagged in a breathable cover so the fabric is never touched by wrap.

The shell crest, which stands proud of everything else, gets its own foam shell. The headboard is then boxed with rigid corner protection, and the footboard travels the same way with its carved volutes individually blocked.

Mirrors are the most fragile part of the set, so each one is packed separately: glass faced with foam board, frame edge-guarded, then crated in its own rigid box marked fragile and this-way-up.

Chests travel with drawers secured and cabriole feet blocked in foam. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. The photographs on this page show the actual furniture before packing - real product, not renders.

Delivery is free everywhere in India and included in the quoted price. No freight, packing or handling charge is added at any later stage.

Production begins once your size, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing. You get a realistic timeline then, and photographs of your own set as the carving, gilding and upholstery are done.

On arrival everything is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: headboard and footboard joined to the rails, the bed levelled, the chests placed and the mirrors mounted and aligned. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right when you see it, tell us and we will put it right.

Twenty years of warranty cover the solid teak frame and joinery of this set: the headboard and footboard structure, the side rails, the chest carcasses and every joint holding them together. On a piece with this much openwork, the joints between the carved sections are what hold the design together, and they are exactly what the warranty is written around.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with it for as long as you own the furniture, backed by teak's own natural resistance and put in writing.

The buttoned panels can be re-covered whenever you want a change of fabric, worked to the same buttoning grid from the specification of your exact bed, which we keep on file. Gilding can be refreshed the same way, and drawer runners, pulls and mirror fittings can all be replaced with parts made for your piece. Our own master Indian artisans do the work, and we tell you what it involves before starting.