Contemporary Dining Table Set in Carved Teak with Grey Seats

The seats on these chairs are a shade darker than the backs, and that is a decision about the next ten years rather than about today.

A dining chair does not wear evenly. The back stays close to how it was made - a little contact from shoulders, not much else. The seat takes everything: the weight, the friction of sitting down and sliding back, the dropped fork, the child's hands. In any dining set, the seats are the part that ages first, and on a pale cloth that ageing is visible long before there is anything actually wrong with the chair.

So where a client is choosing pale upholstery, we suggest taking the seats a shade or two deeper than the backs. It reads as a deliberate two-tone treatment - and it is - but it also means the seats start further from white, so the gradual shift of a well-used cloth is far less obvious against them.

The same reasoning goes the other way: if you want the seats and backs identical, we would rather use a cloth with some texture or a small pattern on the seat, because a flat pale weave shows every mark and a textured one hides it.

The chairs still look new for longer. That is the whole of the argument.

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

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

Top: shaped, over a silver-picked carved frieze.

Base: twin carved pedestals joined by a shaped base, clear of every seating position.

Chairs: buttoned backs inside carved frames with pierced crests, and upholstered seats.

Upholstery: grey backs with darker grey seats as photographed - seats taken deeper deliberately, since they wear first; one cloth throughout also available.

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

A white finish shows a transfer mark from any packing material that is not clean, so every piece is wrapped in fresh, soft, non-abrasive sheeting that has not been used on another job.

The pierced crests are packed with shaped foam set into their openings rather than laid across them, so strapping bears on solid timber. Chairs are crated individually and never nested, with buttoned faces covered loosely so no button is pressed in.

The shaped top travels face-protected with a rigid board and edge-protected continuously round its perimeter. The two pedestals travel crated together, each padded around its full circumference, with the shaped base boxed along its edges.

Unpack the chairs first, then the base, then the top, keeping the inner sheeting on each piece until it is in position.

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 silver match exactly.

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.

Open the crates with the delivery team present and check every 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, both pedestals and each chair on identical terms.

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. Seats wear before backs on any dining set, and we re-cover seats alone at any age - your cloth references stay on file so a re-covered seat matches the backs it sits with.