Dressing Table for Bedroom in Carved Teak - Powder Blue with Gold Carving

Fitting a flat door into a straight cabinet is ordinary work. Fitting a door into a carcass that curves is a different problem, and it is the one that shapes this piece.

The pedestals sweep forward at their outer corners, so the door has to leave the opening on a curve and return to it on a curve, closing tight along a line that is never straight at any point. A flat door in a curved opening would show a widening gap at one edge as it shut. So the door itself is shaped - built from stock thick enough to carry the sweep, with its panel and its carved gilt moulding worked into the curve rather than laid across it.

Then there is the hinge. On a curved front the hinge axis has to be set back and angled so the door swings clear of the returning corner instead of binding on it. Our craftsmen fit each door individually to its own opening, adjusting the seating by hand and checking the gap along the full closing edge, because a curve made by hand is never identical to the one beside it.

It is why the two pedestals are built as a matched pair from the start, and why their doors are not interchangeable once fitted.

Material: Solid teak throughout - pedestals, doors, drawer boxes, top, mirror frame and feet. No veneer over engineered board.

Construction: Shaped pedestals with curved panelled cupboard doors fitted individually, hand-carved gilt mouldings and centre motif, carved scrolled feet, fully pierced openwork mirror frame with carved leaf crown.

Storage: One drawer over one cupboard in each pedestal. Layout, shelving inside the cupboards and drawer counts are configurable.

Mirror: Separate carved and gilded openwork frame with shaped glass, positioned to your chosen height.

Finish: Powder blue with warm cream-gold carving as photographed. Any colour and gilding level can be specified instead.

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

Made: Handcrafted Indian luxury, produced to order by master Indian artisans.

The pierced mirror frame is the most fragile element and travels alone. A rigid board is fitted behind the entire frame so no scroll can flex, the glass is faced, and contoured foam bears on the frame body while every projecting curl and the carved leaf crown sit clear in air - gilded surfaces mark under pressure long before wood does.

Each pedestal is wrapped in a soft, lint-free layer laid on without tension so it cannot burnish the painted blue ground, then foamed with extra thickness across the gilt mouldings and the carved shoulders. The curved door fronts get contoured padding that follows the sweep, since a curve has no flat face to rest against.

Doors are secured shut and their hinges relieved of load, and the drawers are removed or locked so nothing can slide and strike a gilded moulding.

Carved scrolled feet, which sit lowest and meet trolleys first, get their own rigid guards. Everything then goes into rigid, internally braced outer cartons. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed, and our team assembles the piece in your room.

Free delivery is included anywhere in India, with no distance surcharge and no fees appearing at the end. Metros, tier-two cities and smaller towns are served on the same terms.

Production starts once your dimensions, colour, gilding level, storage layout and mirror size are confirmed in writing. Painted and gilded work needs curing time between stages, so we give you an honest timeline then and keep you updated as the piece moves through shaping, carving, door fitting, painting and gilding.

We dispatch through carriers experienced with painted, gilded, carved and mirrored furniture, and send tracking details as soon as it leaves us.

On arrival our team positions the pedestals, joins and levels the top, checks that both doors close cleanly against the curve, sets the mirror at the height you want and removes all packaging. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed - tell us if anything is not right and we will resolve it.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - both pedestals, the curved doors and their hinges, the drawer boxes, the top, the carved feet and the mirror frame.

Curved doors are the part of this piece that most needs that backing, and the reason we can give it is that each door is shaped from solid stock rather than bent from a thin skin over formers. There is no laminate held under tension along the sweep, so there is nothing to relax, lift or delaminate as the years pass.

The openwork mirror frame is covered too. Every scroll is cut from solid teak with the grain planned along the load path, so the pierced frame holds itself as one continuous structure rather than as applied parts glued together.

The teak carries a lifetime warranty against termite damage for as long as you own the piece, drawn from the oils in the timber rather than the paint over it - so the protection holds beneath the colour.

If anything covered needs attention, send us your order details and photographs and our artisans will arrange the repair or replacement.