Gold Diwan in Carved Teak with a Deep Buttoned Ivory Back

Every button on this diwan is made in our workshop, after the covering is already on the piece, and both of those facts matter.

A covered button is a small thing that goes badly wrong easily. Cut the cloth for it square to the weave and, on a patterned fabric, each button ends up showing a random fragment of the design - a piece of leaf here, a corner of a flower there - so a field of forty buttons looks speckled and busy. Cut on the bias instead and the weave reads as texture rather than as chopped pattern, and the buttons recede into the surface where they belong.

The timing matters just as much. Fabric varies between rolls, and even between the beginning and the end of the same roll. A button made from a different piece of cloth than the covering will sit slightly off in tone - not enough to name, enough to notice.

So the buttons are cut last, from the offcuts of the very covering that has just gone onto the piece, and made up while that work is still on the bench.

Forty small decisions that nobody is meant to see individually - only the calm surface they add up to.

Frame: solid teak throughout, hand-carved, with hand-applied gold leaf over the whole show frame.

Back: deep buttoned along its full falling length, with pierced carved crests at both ends and a carved scroll at the centre.

Buttons: covered in the same cloth, cut on the bias and made from the covering offcuts in our workshop.

Seat: single full-length cushion with a rounded end, on a sprung and webbed platform.

Upholstery: plain covering to the buttoned back, patterned covering to the seat and outer arm.

Apron and legs: carved apron running the length of the front, on hand-shaped cabriole legs.

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

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

Gilded carving and buttoned upholstery are wrapped separately, because each needs the opposite handling.

Both pierced crests are supported with foam pressed into their openings so the carving is braced from behind, tissue is laid over the gilding, and each is blocked individually.

The rest of the gilded frame takes acid-free tissue directly against the gold, then foam padding shaped along the mouldings, then bubble wrap, with additional blocking at the arm scrolls and leg knees.

The upholstery is wrapped in breathable cloth and then soft polythene, with no pressure applied across the buttoned back - a compressed buttoned field takes time to recover and should never be crushed in transit.

Legs are detached where the design allows, sleeved in foam and boxed with blocking at the ankle.

Everything ships in a hardwood crate, 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 coverings are confirmed in writing. We photograph your actual diwan through the build - the frame in the white, the carving, the gold leaf, the buttoning pulled and the buttons made up, and the finished piece.

Our team carries the diwan in, fits the legs if they have travelled separately, and sets and levels it in position. The spare buttons are handed over on delivery.

Send us lift dimensions, stair turns and doorway widths ahead of dispatch so the route can be planned. 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 back frame, both crests, the arm frame, the apron 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, the buttoning and the covered buttons are all covered against manufacturing defect.

Both coverings and the gilding materials used on your diwan are recorded against your order number. Spare covered buttons made from your own cloth are supplied with the piece, so a single lost button is never a problem. Contact us with your order number for anything further and we will arrange it.