Gold Side Table in Carved Teak - Flowing Rose Carved Two Drawer

Almost all carved ornament on furniture is symmetrical, and there is a practical reason for it: symmetry is easy to judge. A carver can check the left against the right, and so can the customer. Get one side wrong and the error announces itself.

Asymmetric carving has no such safety net. A rose spray growing up a leg has nothing to be measured against - it is either well composed or it is not, and the only judge is the carver's eye.

That is why the sprays on this table are drawn onto the finished shape rather than transferred from a pattern. Our carvers work with the piece assembled and in front of them, marking where a stem will start, where it will turn, which bloom sits highest and which is half-hidden behind a leaf. A spray that runs up a curving leg has to accelerate as the curve tightens, or it looks stuck on.

The blooms are then carved at different depths and different angles - some facing you, some turned away, one or two barely opened. Real roses on a stem never all face the same direction, and a carving in which they do reads as pattern rather than as plant.

It takes longer than symmetrical work and it cannot be checked by folding the design in half. It is also why no two of these tables are ever quite identical.

Material: Solid teak throughout - case, both drawer boxes and shaped fronts, top and legs. No veneer over engineered board.

Construction: Case and legs shaped as one continuous flowing line from solid stock, asymmetric hand-carved rose sprays composed in situ, curved drawer fronts shaped to the case, carved rosette handles, scrolled feet.

Storage: Two drawers. Counts, depths and internal fittings are configurable.

Finish: Hand-applied gold leaf, as photographed. Silver or champagne leaf, painted tones or natural teak can be specified instead.

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

Available: Singly, or as a mirrored pair with the flow reversed.

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

A flowing form has projections in unexpected places, so this table is packed to a shape rather than to a box. Contoured foam is cut to follow the sweep of the corner and the outward turn of each foot, and it holds the piece at its widest points so nothing else can touch the crate.

Because every surface is gilded, the layer laid directly against the table is soft, lint-free and applied without tension - burnished leaf marks under pressure long before timber does.

The carved rose sprays stand proud in several places, including low on the legs where they are easily caught. Each spray is bridged with foam that bears on the surrounding surface and never onto a bloom, and the scrolled feet get their own rigid guards.

Both drawers are removed or secured shut so nothing can run out of a curved opening and strike a front.

The table then goes into a rigid outer carton braced internally against movement. Ordered as a mirrored pair, each is crated separately. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed.

Free delivery is included anywhere in India, with no distance surcharge and nothing added at the end. Metros, tier-two cities and smaller towns are served on the same terms, and a pair ships on the same free terms as a single table.

Production begins once your dimensions, drawer layout, carving density and finish are confirmed in writing. Asymmetric carving is composed on the assembled piece and gilding needs curing time between stages, so we give you an honest timeline and keep you updated as it moves through shaping, carving, gilding and burnishing.

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

On arrival our team brings the table in, positions it, checks it stands true on your floor and that the drawers run cleanly, and removes all packaging. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed - if anything is not right, tell us and we will resolve it.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the case, both drawer boxes and their shaped fronts, the flowing corner members and the feet.

The corner that sweeps from case to leg is the structural heart of this design and is fully covered. It is shaped from thick solid stock with the grain laid to run around the curve, so the fibre carrying the load is continuous from the top of the case to the foot - there is no joint at the point where the piece changes direction, which is where a table built as box-plus-legs would take all its stress.

The curved drawer fronts are shaped from solid teak rather than bent and faced, so nothing can lift along the sweep.

The teak carries a lifetime warranty against termite damage for as long as you own the piece, from the oils in the timber rather than the leaf above them.

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