Designer Bed in Carved Teak - Teal Velvet with Champagne Gold Frame

Velvet earned its place on beds for a reason that has nothing to do with fashion. Its pile catches light at different angles across a single surface, so a velvet headboard is never one flat colour - it shifts from deep to bright as you cross the room. Put that against a gilded frame, which does exactly the same thing with its carved edges, and the two materials keep answering each other all day as the light changes.

Teal is an old choice for this pairing. It sits opposite gold on the colour wheel, so each makes the other look stronger, and it is dark enough to give a bedroom weight without going to black.

The craft question here is the seam between them. Our master Indian artisans set out the frame and the upholstery from one full-size drawing, so the carver's serpentine line and the upholsterer's shaped panel are the same curve. Cut them separately and there is always a gap somewhere. Drawn together, the velvet sits into the gold as though it grew there.

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

Headboard: Shaped upholstered panel buttoned in a fine diamond grid, held in a carved openwork frame with scrolled shoulders and a pierced centre crest.

Footboard: Vertically fluted upholstered panel in a carved rail with a shell at the centre and carved scroll feet at the corners.

Upholstery: Shown in teal velvet, and made in any fabric and colour you choose.

Finish: Shown in champagne gold, and available in bright gold, silver, ivory, or natural teak tones without gilding.

Bedsides: Matching bedside chests, dresser, mirror or bench carved in the same pattern can be added to make a full suite.

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.

Velvet and gilding are the two most easily marked surfaces in furniture, and this bed has both, so nothing firm ever touches either directly. The velvet panels are bagged first in breathable covers that keep the pile clean and unpressed. The gilded carving is then covered in a soft non-abrasive layer that will not rub the finish.

The pierced crest above the headboard, which stands clear of everything else, gets its own foam shell. The scrolled shoulders are blocked individually, and the carved scroll feet at the footboard corners are collared in foam.

Headboard and footboard are then boxed with rigid corner protection, side rails bundled and edge-guarded, and all fittings sealed into a labelled pouch so no metal moves against gilded teak in transit.

Everything is crated together with handling instructions marked outside. The photographs on this page show the actual bed, taken before packing - real product, not a render.

Delivery is free everywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted. No freight, packing or handling charges are added afterwards, whatever the distance.

Production starts 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, gilded and upholstered.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom, with the headboard and footboard joined to the rails, everything levelled to your floor, and the velvet checked over before we leave. 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: the headboard structure behind the velvet, the footboard, the side rails and every joint holding them together. On an upholstered bed you never see that frame after the day it is delivered, which is precisely why it is worth guaranteeing.

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

Fabric is the part most likely to change with a room, and re-covering is straightforward: we work from the specification of your exact bed, which we keep on file, so the new panels are cut to the same shaped line and buttoned to the same grid. Gilding can be refreshed the same way. All of it is done by our own master Indian artisans, and we tell you what the work involves and how long it takes before starting.