Blue Bed Design in Carved Teak - Ivory and Gold Frame with Tufted Head

Close-set studs along an upholstered edge began as fixings and stayed as ornament. Before staples existed, a tack was how fabric was held to a frame, and upholsterers set them in a tight row because a row of tacks grips more evenly than a scattered few. Someone noticed the row looked deliberate, and it has been a decorative border ever since.

They also solve a real problem on a smooth panel. Flat upholstery has nothing to break up its expanse, so its edges become the whole design, and a studded line draws that edge precisely.

The other decision on this bed is the two-tone finish. Gilding an entire carved frame gives you a gold object; gilding only the raised carving over an ivory ground gives you a drawn line, which is why the piece stays light despite the depth of the work. Our master Indian artisans lay that gold by hand along each raised edge, and the value of it lies in the line never wavering - a fraction of a millimetre of drift and the eye reads it as a blur rather than an outline.

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

Headboard: Tall buttoned panel in a fine diamond grid, broad arched top with rolled shoulders, carved frame rising to a pierced shell and leaf crest.

Footboard: Smooth flat-stretched panel edged with close-set studs, large carved centre cartouche on the top rail running into scrollwork and carved corner volutes.

Upholstery: Shown in deep steel blue, and made in any fabric and colour you choose.

Finish: Ivory ground with gold on the raised carving, and available in a single ivory tone, or in gold, silver, antique bronze or natural teak throughout.

Bedside chests: Bowed fronts, two drawers each, gold-tipped carved corners, carved legs. 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.

Studded edges are the detail most easily disturbed in transit, because a stud row is only as good as its straightness, so the footboard is packed with its studded edges guarded along their full length and nothing allowed to bear across them.

Both upholstered panels are bagged in breathable covers first, and every layer after that presses on the carved frame rather than on the fabric.

Gold-highlighted carving is covered in a soft non-abrasive layer, because a fine gold line is scuffed by friction rather than by weight. The pierced crest above the headboard is foam-faced from both sides, and the large carved cartouche on the footboard is given its own foam shell so nothing rests on it.

Cabriole feet are collared along their curve. Rails are bundled, fittings pouched, chests packed with drawers secured. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph on this page shows the actual bed before packing - not a render.

Delivery is free across India and included in the price you are quoted, with nothing for freight, packing or handling added later.

Production begins 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 frame is carved, the gold laid along the raised edges and the panels upholstered.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: headboard and footboard joined to the rails, everything levelled to your floor, the upholstery and stud lines checked over, and the bedside chests placed where you want them. 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 - the headboard structure behind the buttoning, the footboard, the side rails, the carved cabriole feet and every joint between them.

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.

Fabric is the part most likely to change with a room, and both treatments here are simple to renew: we work from the specification of your exact bed, so a new headboard panel is buttoned to the same grid and a new footboard stretched and studded to the same line. The gold highlighting can be cleaned back and re-laid, and drawer runners and pulls replaced with parts made for your piece. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain it to you before starting.