Diwan Bed in White and Gold Teak with Fully Buttoned Seat

Buttoning a flat surface is one job. Carrying that buttoning over an edge that turns downwards - as this seat does at the foot - is a different one, and the depth of each button has to change as it goes.

A button works by pulling the covering down into the stuffing. On a flat plane every button can be pulled to the same depth, and the result is an even grid.

Where the surface begins to curve away, that stops being true. Pull a button to the same depth on a turning surface and it drags the covering across the curve rather than into it: the material lifts off the shape just below the button, and instead of a soft dome you get a flat facet with a crease at its lower edge. A row of those down a sweeping foot end ruins the curve the frame was shaped to make.

So the depths are reduced progressively as the surface turns - each row a little shallower than the one above it, with the last row barely pulled at all.

Measured on the bench it looks inconsistent. Seen on the finished piece from across the room, every button reads the same depth, because each one is set to the surface it sits on.

Frame: solid teak throughout, hand-carved, finished in white with hand-applied gold on the carving.

Upholstery: continuous buttoned field across the back, seat and swept foot, with button depths graded to the curve.

Back: high at the head with a carved cresting, rolled arm at the far end.

Foot: long downward sweep, buttoned over its whole curve.

Suspension: sprung and webbed platform beneath the buttoned seat.

Cushions: round buttoned cushion at the head.

Legs and rail: shaped carved rail into carved gilded leg heads.

Handing: built with the head to the left or the right, to your requirement.

Made to order: length, back height, seat depth, handing, finish and covering are all customisable. Custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

A continuous buttoned surface must not be compressed anywhere, so nothing is ever strapped across this piece.

The upholstery is wrapped in clean breathable cloth and then soft polythene, loosely, with all strapping taken around the frame rails only. The swept foot - the part that projects furthest and sits lowest - is given its own foam cradle so it cannot take a knock at floor level.

The carved and gilded work takes acid-free tissue directly against the finish, then foam padding shaped along the mouldings, then bubble wrap, with individual blocking at the crest and the arm scroll.

The round cushion travels in its own sleeve.

Legs are protected where they are integral and detached and boxed where the design allows.

The diwan ships in a hardwood crate sized to its sweep, corner-protected and marked for orientation. Multi-layer protective packaging is included on every order at no extra cost.

Delivery is free anywhere in India, with guaranteed dent-free arrival. No distance charge, no size charge and no handling fee.

Production begins once your length, handing and covering are confirmed in writing. We photograph your actual diwan through the build - the frame in the white, the carving and gilding, the buttoning set out and pulled across the sweep, and the finished piece.

Our team carries the diwan in, sets and levels it in position, and hands over the spare buttons.

Send us lift dimensions, stair turns and doorway widths ahead of dispatch so the route can be planned - the swept foot makes the piece longer on the floor than it looks in a photograph. Every photograph on this page is of the actual product, not a render.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the seat rails, the shaped foot frame, the back frame, the crest, the arm and the leg joints, along with every joint between them.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with the diwan and never expires. Teak's own oils are its first protection and our warranty stands behind them.

The sprung and webbed platform and the buttoning work are covered against manufacturing defect - on this piece that includes the graded buttoning over the swept foot, which is the part that takes real skill to get right.

The white finish, the gold on the carving and the covering are recorded against your order number for future matching, and spare covered buttons made from your own cloth are supplied with the piece. Contact us with your order number and we will arrange it.