Designer Coffee Table in Carved Teak with Gilded Scroll Base

Mirror in furniture fails in one of two ways, and both of them happen behind the glass rather than in front of it.

The first is pressure. Mirror is glass, and glass does not compress - fix a panel tightly into a timber frame and the frame will swell in the monsoon with nowhere to go. The panel takes the load and cracks, usually from a corner. So each mirror here is captured, not fixed: it sits in a rebate cut larger than the panel, held by a beading that keeps it in place while leaving it free to sit rather than be gripped.

The second is chemical, and it is the one people do not expect. The silvering on the back of a mirror is a thin metallic layer with a protective coat over it, and that coat is vulnerable to the solvents in ordinary furniture finishes. Fit a mirror into a frame that has not fully cured, or let finish creep round the edge onto the back, and the silvering lifts in a dark bloom that spreads inward from the edges over months.

So mirrors go in last, after everything else has cured hard, and the back of each panel is sealed and backed before it ever meets the timber.

Structure: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans, with traditional joinery at every junction.

Top: gilt openwork panel under glass, inside ivory and marbled borders.

Sides: ivory panels with applied gilded ornament, mirrored panels held as captured panels, and pierced gilded galleries.

Base: broad run of gilded acanthus scroll feet around the outline.

Finish: hand-applied ivory with a blue-black marbled banding and gilded carving. All tones are set by you, and the panels can be plain, mirrored or carved.

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

Photography: images on this page are of the actual product, not renders.

Mirror, gilding and a pale finish all travel in the same carton here, and each needs different handling.

The mirrored panels stay in the piece - they are captured and cannot slide - but each is faced with a soft pad and then a rigid card so nothing can flex against it. The pierced galleries have foam fitted into their openings so the carved bridges cannot move.

The gilded scroll base runs widest and lowest, so a continuous foam band follows it with deeper collars at the projecting corners. A soft non-abrasive layer covers every ivory and gilded surface first, laid smoothly with no folds. A rigid panel goes over the top, bearing on its outer border rather than the glazed centre. Corrugated panels build a rigid shell, the base is blocked and braced, and the outer carton is edge-reinforced. Everything unwraps by hand.

Free PAN-India delivery is included in the price - no zone rates, no distance surcharge, no fragile surcharge for the mirror or glass. The table costs the same delivered to Aurangabad as to Agartala.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. It leaves in multi-layer protective packaging, travels with handlers briefed on mirror, glass and gilded finishes, and is checked at every transfer point. If anything is not right when you open it, tell us and we make it right - the guarantee sits with us, not with the transporter.

Because the table is made to order, production begins once your size, finish tones and panel treatments are confirmed in writing. Mirrors are fitted only after every finish has cured hard, which adds time at the end of the build, so we give you a realistic timeline and a dispatch note with an expected delivery window.

The solid teak structure and its joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the shaped body, the panel frames and rebates, the pierced galleries and the joints where the scroll base meets the body. If a joint opens or a member fails within those twenty years, we repair or replace it.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs alongside it and never expires. Teak's natural oils are what termites avoid, and our seasoning and finishing routine is built around preserving them, so the timber is guaranteed for as long as the table is yours.

The mirrored panels are captured rather than bonded, which means any of them can be replaced if it is ever damaged without disturbing the finish around it. That is only possible because the rebates were made to hold rather than to grip. All of it is built in our own workshop by the master Indian artisans who make everything we sell, from timber we season ourselves.