Designer Sofa in Carved Teak - Cream with Tiered Back and Chaise

Sofas are usually built to one back height, which means they suit one way of sitting. That is fine for a two-seater, where everyone is doing much the same thing, and it is a real limitation on a long sofa where four or five people are using it simultaneously for different reasons - one reading upright, one watching a screen, one half lying down.

Stepping the back solves it without any mechanism. Different heights along the same piece give different support, and people find the section that suits them without being told.

It is more work to build. Each panel is framed, padded and covered separately, and the transitions between them have to be resolved cleanly or the back looks like a mistake rather than a design. Our master Indian artisans overlap the panels slightly at each step, so the taller one always sits in front of the shorter - which is what makes the change read as deliberate from across the room.

Material: Solid teak frame throughout, including back sections, arm, chaise and legs.

Back: Built from separate padded panels at stepped heights, each individually shaped and edged, overlapping at each transition; heights adjustable to your preference.

Crest: Carved white crest above one back panel.

Arm: Deep carved white volute scrolling outward at the closed end.

Chaise: Rounded in plan with a shaped back rising behind it, closed by a carved white panel.

Seat: Individual cushions.

Upholstery: Shown in cream; any fabric and colour, in one weave or two.

Finish: White carved detail as shown, and available in ivory, champagne, gold, silver, walnut or natural teak tones.

Configuration: Chaise built on the left or right hand as your room requires.

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

The sofa travels in sections with joints engineered for assembly in your room, each packed separately and labelled in assembly order - and on this design the labelling matters more than usual, since the back panels differ from one another and cannot be interchanged.

Upholstered surfaces are bagged in breathable covers and firm packing bears only on the frame. The stepped transitions between panels are protected individually, because a crushed edge at a step shows immediately.

The carved white crest and the deep arm volute are given shaped foam shells, and the carved panel closing the chaise is edge-guarded.

White surfaces are covered first in a soft non-marking layer. Seat cushions travel separately so nothing compresses them. Fittings are pouched.

Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here shows the actual sofa before packing - not a render.

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

Production begins once your dimensions, step heights, chaise hand, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing. We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs of your own sofa as the back panels are framed and upholstered.

On arrival the sections are carried in and assembled in your room in the labelled order, the frame levelled, and the cushions placed. Tell us your lift dimensions, staircase turns and doorway widths when you order and we size the sections to your access. 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 - every back section, the arm, the chaise, the seat rails, the legs and every joint between them. A stepped back means several framed panels joined to one another as well as to the seat frame, so there are more joints here than in a conventional sofa, and each is cut and fitted to carry its section.

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

Because each back panel is separately framed and covered, one can be re-covered or repaired without disturbing the others - useful on a sofa where one end takes more use than the rest. We keep the specification of your exact piece on file, including the step heights and panel shapes, so any later work matches. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain it beforehand.