Cushioned Bed in Carved Teak - Cream and Gold with Crystal Buttons

Deep buttoning began as engineering. Before foam existed, upholstery was stuffed with horsehair, and hair moves. Pulling the cover down at regular points with buttons held the stuffing in its place, and the diamond pattern between those points was simply what the fabric did when it was pulled that way. The look everyone now wants was originally a solution to a problem.

Setting a crystal into the button came later, from the ballroom rather than the workshop: a bright point that catches candlelight and repeats itself across a whole surface. On a bed it does the same thing at night, and the effect changes as you move around the room.

What our master Indian artisans do here is get the two crafts to agree with each other. The carved surround has to be cut to the exact line the upholstery will meet, or the padding sits proud of the frame and the profile breaks. Carver and upholsterer work to the same drawing, which is why the buttoned panel and the carved scroll meet cleanly all the way round.

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

Upholstery: Padded and deep-buttoned headboard and footboard, crystal stud set in each button, made in the fabric of your choice.

Carving: Cartouche crest with oval medallion, acanthus wings scrolling to corner volutes, matching medallion and scrollwork on the footboard, running leaf carving on the base rail, carved feet.

Finish: Shown in cream with gold-tipped carving, and available in any tone with gilding heavy, light or absent, as you prefer.

Bedside chests: Two drawers each, serpentine fronts, carved and gold-tipped surrounds on cabriole feet. Included as shown, and available in any quantity.

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

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

Upholstery and carving need opposite kinds of protection, so they are packed separately. The buttoned panels are first bagged in a breathable cover so nothing marks the fabric, then the carved surround around them is foam-faced so pressure lands on wood rather than on the padded surface or the crystal buttons.

The cartouche crest, which stands proud of the headboard, gets its own foam shell before the whole panel is boxed with rigid corner protection. The footboard travels the same way. Side rails are bundled with edge guards, and all fittings go into a labelled pouch of their own.

The bedside chests are packed with drawers secured and the cabriole feet blocked in foam, since carved feet take the knocks in any move.

Everything is then crated together with handling instructions marked on the outside. The photographs on this page show the actual product, taken before it was packed - real furniture, not renders.

Delivery is free anywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted. Nothing for freight, packing or handling is added later, whatever the distance.

Production starts once your size, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing. You get a realistic timeline then, and photographs of your own bed as the frame is carved, polished and upholstered.

When it arrives, our team carries it in and assembles it in your bedroom: headboard and footboard joined to the rails, everything levelled against your floor, upholstery checked over, and the bedside chests placed where you want them. We guarantee dent-free arrival. If anything is not as it should be, tell us and we will make it right.

Twenty years of warranty cover the solid teak frame and joinery of this bed: headboard and footboard structure, side rails, and every joint between them. That is the part of an upholstered bed you never see, and it is the part that decides whether the bed is still solid in twenty years.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with it, for as long as you own the piece.

Upholstery is the element most likely to change with a room, and that is easy: tell us and we re-cover the headboard and footboard in a new fabric to the same buttoning pattern, working from the specification of your exact bed, which we keep on file. Buttons, crystals and fittings can all be renewed the same way. Carving and finish work is done by our own master Indian artisans, and we explain the work and the timeline before starting it.