Designer Bedroom Set in Carved Teak - Cream Frame with Brown Velvet

The conventional way round - dark carved frame, pale upholstery - works because the eye reads pale as forward and dark as receding, so the fabric comes towards you and the frame steps back. Reversing it puts the dark panel in the recessive position and the pale frame in front, which should not work and does, for one reason: the carving is deep enough to hold its own shadow.

That is the whole trick. On a cream frame with shallow carving, a dark velvet panel would swallow all the attention and the woodwork would vanish behind it. Cut the carving deep, undercut the scrolls, and the frame generates enough of its own light and shade to stand beside a strong dark colour rather than disappearing next to it.

Our master Indian artisans carve pale pieces intended for dark upholstery differently from pale pieces intended for pale upholstery - deeper, with more undercutting - because the fabric decides how much shadow the wood needs to compete. It is a decision made before the first cut, from the fabric sample you send us.

Material: Solid teak throughout, including bed, bedside chests and mirror frames.

Headboard: Tall buttoned centre panel between two outward-swelling curved side panels, each in a carved frame, plumed crest above with foliate scrolls to both shoulders.

Footboard: Two crystal-buttoned velvet panels divided by a raised carved centre motif, large carved volutes at both ends, stepped base beneath.

Upholstery: Shown in deep brown velvet with crystal studs; any fabric and colour, with crystal, fabric-covered or metal buttons.

Finish: Pale cream as shown, and available in ivory, champagne, gold, walnut or espresso.

Bedside chests: Carved fronts, moulded tops, carved legs. Included as shown, available in any quantity.

Mirrors: Shaped glass in crested carved frames, height set to your wall.

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

Velvet crushes permanently if anything rests on it in transit, so all five upholstered panels are bagged in breathable covers and packed with rigid support standing clear of the pile.

The plumed crest above the headboard is the highest element and is given a rigid foam shell of its own, with the foliate scrolls at the shoulders blocked individually.

The raised carved motif at the centre of the footboard and the large volutes at both ends are each collared in shaped foam.

Cream-finished surfaces are covered first in a soft non-marking layer - pale finishes show every scuff. Each mirror travels in its own rigid crate, glass foam-faced and the shaped frame edge-guarded around its full outline. Chests travel with drawers secured. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here shows the actual furniture before packing - not a render.

Delivery is free anywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted for the set, with no freight, packing or handling charge added later.

Production begins once your sizes, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing - and we ask for the fabric decision early on this design, because the carving depth is set from it.

We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs as the carving is cut, the cream finish laid and the velvet upholstered.

On arrival everything is carried in and set up: the bed assembled and levelled, the chests placed, the mirrors mounted at the specified height and aligned. Tell us your wall type when you order so the right fixings come with the team. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right, tell us and we will make it right.

The solid teak frame and joinery are covered for 20 years across the set - the headboard structure carrying three separately framed panels, the footboard, the side rails, the stepped base, the chest carcasses and the mirror frames.

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

Velvet is the element most likely to be renewed, and because each panel here is a shape rather than a rectangle, having the original patterns matters. We keep the specification of your exact set on file - panel profiles, buttoning grid, crystal positions - so new panels sit into the carved frames exactly as the originals did, in the same colour or a completely different one. The cream finish can be cleaned back and re-laid, and mirror glass re-cut to your shaped frames. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain it beforehand.