Floral Dining Table Set in Carved Teak with Embroidered Panels

Embroidery and upholstery pull against each other, and if you stretch them together one of them loses.

A plain cover wants to be pulled tight over its padding - that is what gives an upholstered back its shape. An embroidered panel wants the opposite: stretched hard, the ground cloth distorts around every worked area, because the embroidery itself does not stretch. The flowers pucker, the ground goes wavy between them, and a piece of work that took days looks careless.

So the two are not stretched together. The embroidered panel is mounted on its own light sub-frame, tensioned only as much as it needs to sit flat - which is considerably less than upholstery tension - and that sub-frame is then set into the chair back as a unit. The surrounding upholstery is pulled to its own proper tension around it, and the two never fight.

The panel is held in place rather than fixed permanently, which means it can be lifted out. An embroidered panel is the part of the chair most likely to be treasured and least likely to survive a spill, and being able to remove one for cleaning - or replace one entirely without touching the rest of the chair - is worth building in from the start.

Set: one dining table with chairs, made together as one commission.

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

Chair backs: shaped with carved crests, carrying embroidered panels mounted on their own light sub-frames and set into the back as removable units.

Seats: plain upholstered, tensioned separately from the panels.

Table top: protective glass over the timber top, with a shaped scalloped apron beneath.

Legs: carved cabriole.

Upholstery: embroidered floral panels with plain ground as photographed; plain panels and any fabric available.

Finish: hand-applied soft ivory with gold detail; other tones available.

Joinery: mortise and tenon throughout, corner-blocked at every seat rail.

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

Embroidery is raised above its ground, so anything pressed against it flattens the stitching. Each chair back is covered with soft non-abrasive sheeting laid on loosely rather than pulled tight, and a light spacer is set over the panel so nothing bears on the worked area at all.

Chairs are crated individually and never nested, with the carved crests padded to their own outlines.

The table's glass travels in its own crate, edge-protected all round. The top is face-protected with a rigid board; the scalloped apron is padded continuously, since a scalloped edge presents a projection at every curve.

Unpack the chairs first, then the table, then set the glass with two people. If any stitching looks flattened after unwrapping, it lifts within a day.

Delivery is free anywhere in India for the whole set, and every piece is guaranteed to arrive dent-free. If anything is wrong when the crates are opened, correcting it is our cost, and we commit to that before you order.

Production begins once the table size, chair count, the embroidery, the surrounding cloth and the finish are confirmed in writing. Embroidered panels are worked before the chairs are upholstered, so the design is agreed early in the schedule.

Dispatch waits for the finish to cure fully. We share the schedule at confirmation, update you as each stage completes, and send tracking as soon as the crates leave us.

Open every crate with the delivery team present, including the glass, and check each piece. Send us your doorway, lift and stair measurements at the order stage and we set the top size to a dimension that will reach the room.

Every frame in the set carries a 20-year warranty on solid teak frame and joinery - the table and each chair on identical terms.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs on every piece, resting on teak's own oils rather than on an applied treatment, and issued in writing with the set.

Both documents are tied to your order and handed over on delivery, so the record stays with you. If a covered fault appears on one piece, send photographs and we repair or replace that piece alone.

Embroidery, upholstery, glass and hand-applied finishes are handled separately from the structural cover. Because the panels are removable units, one can be taken out for specialist cleaning or replaced entirely without re-upholstering the chair, and we keep the panel dimensions with your specification.