Carved Dining Table Set in Teak with Green and Gold Finish

A two-tone finish on carving is easy to describe and hard to do, because gold that strays into a recess ruins the whole effect. The point of picking out the raised faces is that the recesses stay dark - that contrast is what makes the carving read. One brush stroke that dips into a hollow and the depth flattens out at exactly that spot.

So the gold is not brushed on. The green is laid first over the entire carving, into every recess, and left to cure hard. The gold then goes on with a pad rather than a brush: a firm faced pad, charged sparingly, drawn across the surface so it touches only what stands proud. It physically cannot reach into a hollow, because the pad bridges it.

The pad is worked in one direction across a section and then lifted, rather than scrubbed back and forth, which is what would push material over an edge. On a deeply undercut area the carver's own cuts do the rest of the work: the deeper the undercut, the cleaner the line where the gold stops.

Where a piece needs gold in a recess deliberately - a moulding hollow, say - it is done separately and by hand, before the pad work, so the two are never confused.

The result is a set where you can see how deep every cut is from across the room, which is the entire point of carving something in the first place.

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

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

Chair backs: deeply pierced fretwork inside carved scroll frames, with upholstered pad backs behind; solid panelled backs also available.

Table top: protective glass over the timber top, with a deeply carved apron beneath.

Base: turned and carved pedestals on scrolled feet.

Carvers: matching backs with open carved arms.

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

Finish: green ground laid over the whole carving, with gold applied by pad to the raised faces only so the recesses stay dark; any two-tone or single-tone combination available.

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

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

Pierced chair backs are the most vulnerable thing in this set. Each is packed with shaped foam set into the openings of the fretwork rather than laid across it, so strapping tension bears on solid timber and never on a thin fret.

Chairs are crated individually and never nested, with upholstered seats covered in soft non-abrasive sheeting and the carver arms padded along their full length.

The table's glass travels in its own crate, edge-protected all round and never packed against timber. The top is face-protected with a rigid board; the carved apron and the scrolled pedestal feet are padded individually.

Unpack the chairs first, then the base, then the top, and set the glass last with two people. 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, back treatment, upholstery and finish are confirmed in writing. Table and chairs are made together and dispatched together so the green and the gold match exactly across every piece.

Dispatch waits for the 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. Our team agrees the delivery window with you directly.

Open every crate with the delivery team present, including the glass, and check each piece. Send us your doorway, lift and stair measurements at the order stage and we set the top size to a dimension that will reach the room.

Every frame in the set carries a 20-year warranty on solid teak frame and joinery - the table, its pedestals and each chair and carver on identical terms. The pierced chair backs are carved from the solid and are structural, so they are covered too.

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. If a covered fault appears on one piece, send photographs and we repair or replace that piece alone.

Upholstery, glass and the hand-applied finish are handled separately from the structural cover. We re-cover and re-finish our own furniture at any age, and your specification - including the exact green and the gold treatment - stays on file so an addition matches the original.