Designer TV Unit in Carved Teak with a Framed Screen Surround and Bowed Console

Framing a television is easy to get wrong in one specific way: the frame must not touch the screen.

A television is a sealed unit that expands slightly as it warms and needs air around its edges to shed heat. A frame built tight to the bezel traps that heat and, worse, transfers any knock on the frame directly into the panel.

So this surround is built with a deliberate air gap all round, and the screen is carried on its own bracket behind the frame rather than by the frame itself. The frame hangs on the wall; the television hangs on the wall; neither touches the other. What the eye sees is a picture frame around a picture, and what the frame is actually doing is nothing at all - which is precisely what makes it safe.

The rebate depth is the second decision. Set the frame flush with the screen and the effect is lost; set it too proud and the frame shadows the picture at an angle. Our artisans set it so the frame stands slightly forward, casting a fine shadow line onto the screen edge from the room's own light, without ever appearing in your sightline from the sofa.

Material: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans.

Structure: two pieces - a carved screen surround with a deep rebate, and a bowed console with drawers, moulded top and carved plinth.

Screen surround: aperture sized to your television with a deliberate air gap all round and room allowed for a larger screen later; the frame carries no part of the television, which hangs on its own bracket.

Finish: silvered and toned surround with a figured and gilded console as photographed; silver, gold, ivory, natural teak and combinations available.

Options: console with drawers or cupboards; cable routes and ventilation cut to suit your equipment.

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

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

The two pieces are crated separately, which is how they are built and how they will be installed.

The surround is the more delicate of the two: its carving stands proud on all four sides, so each corner is capped individually and the raised ornament is supported with shaped foam worked in behind it rather than pressed from outside.

The console's bowed front is edge-protected along its curve, where a straight protector would leave the centre exposed, and the carved plinth is blocked so the weight never rests on it. Drawers travel closed and restrained.

Both pieces then go into laminated foam, bubble wrap and fitted wooden crates, marked for orientation, with fixings and a hanging drawing in a labelled box. Multi-layer protective packaging is standard and dent-free arrival is guaranteed.

Delivery anywhere in India is free and included in the price for both pieces - no separate freight charge, no distance loading, no small-town surcharge.

Production begins once your screen size, wall dimensions, console layout and finishes are confirmed in writing. You get a realistic production window at that stage and updates as the pieces move through carcass work, carving, finishing and crating.

The shipment is tracked and our team stays reachable throughout. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed and it is ours to honour.

Tell us your doorway, stair and lift dimensions when you order and we plan the crates and route around them before the pieces leave the workshop.

Brown Rabbit warrants the solid teak in both pieces and their joinery for 20 years - the surround frame and its mitres, the console carcass, the bowed front, the drawer construction and the plinth.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with the pieces for as long as you own them, resting on teak's natural termite resistance and confirmed in writing.

Because the surround carries no load from the television, it is not subject to the sag that afflicts frames built to hold a screen. Hanging fixings are supplied and rated for the frame's own finished weight.

Written warranty terms are issued with the order so the cover is agreed before we begin.