Dressing Table with Mirror in Carved Teak - Ivory with Stool

The trifold mirror was a genuine invention rather than a decoration. A single mirror shows you the front of your face and nothing else, which is fine for shaving and useless for dressing hair or fastening anything behind you. Hinging two narrower panels either side, angled inward, puts your own profile and the back of your head into view at the same time - and because the angle can be adjusted, you can set it to whatever you are actually doing.

It became standard on dressing tables in the nineteenth century and then disappeared from most modern ones, largely because a single flat mirror is far cheaper to make and to ship.

Our master Indian artisans build the side panels on the same arched profile as the centre so the three read as one shape when they are closed up, and set the hinges so the panels hold whatever angle you put them at rather than swinging back. It is a small mechanical detail and it is what makes the mirror worth having.

Material: Solid teak throughout, including table carcass, mirror frames, drawers, cupboard doors and stool.

Mirror: Trifold - a tall arched centre panel with a narrower angled arched panel on each side, hinged to hold their position.

Storage: Shallow drawer at the centre above the kneehole, a drawer above each cupboard, and a cupboard on each side. Interior layout arranged to what you keep.

Kneehole: Open and deep enough to sit into properly.

Carving: Carved cartouches on the cupboard doors, carved pilasters between sections, beaded band along the top rail, carved cabriole feet.

Stool: Round buttoned seat on carved cabriole legs; upholstered in any fabric.

Finish: Ivory with gold-tipped carving as shown, and available in white, champagne, walnut, espresso or natural teak.

Sizes: Custom sizes made to order, including table and stool height set to you - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

Mirrors are the fragile part and each of the three panels travels in its own rigid crate: glass faced with foam board, the arched frame edge-guarded around its full profile, and the crate marked fragile and this-way-up. The hinges are packed separately and fitted during installation.

The table carcass travels with drawers secured shut, cupboard doors held closed, the moulded top edge-guarded and the carved cabriole feet collared individually - feet take the knocks in any delivery.

The carved cartouches on the cupboard doors stand proud and are given shaped foam protection, and the gold-tipped edges are covered first in a soft non-abrasive layer since fine gilding sits on the highest points.

The stool travels whole with its buttoned seat bagged and its legs collared.

Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here shows the actual furniture 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 sizes, finish and interior layout are confirmed in writing. We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs of your own dressing table as the carving is cut and the finish built up.

On arrival the table is carried in and set in place, levelled against your floor, and the three mirror panels mounted and their angles set with you sitting at it - the angle is personal and takes a minute to get right. The stool is placed and its height checked against the finished table. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right, tell us and we will make it right.

The solid teak carcass and joinery are covered for 20 years - the table frame, the drawer boxes, the cupboard carcasses, the mirror frames, the feet and the stool.

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

Mirror glass can be damaged by accident rather than by wear, and it is replaceable: we cut new glass to your exact arched profiles from the dimensions we hold on file, which matters here because none of the three panels is a standard rectangle. Drawer runners, hinges and pulls are replaceable the same way. The stool can be re-covered to the original buttoning, and the finish cleaned back and re-laid. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain what it involves before starting.