Marble Top Side Table in Carved Teak - Ivory with Gilt Borders

A repeating carved border is arithmetic before it is craft.

The leaf-and-bead running around each drawer front here is a repeat - the same small unit, over and over. Which means the length of each side has to be an exact whole number of units, or the pattern will not close. Get it wrong and you finish a run with two-thirds of a leaf, and no amount of skill hides it.

Worse, all four sides have to work. A rectangular border has two long runs and two short ones, and the unit has to divide evenly into both - so the unit size is not chosen for how it looks in isolation. It is chosen because it fits the drawer.

So our carvers work backwards. The drawer front is made first and measured. The repeat is then sized to divide the long side and the short side both, adjusted by fractions of a millimetre until it does, and only then is it stepped off around the frame with dividers and cut.

The corners are the last problem. A repeat that simply runs into a corner and turns looks wrong, because the eye reads the corner as a break in rhythm. So a small corner element - here a leaf turning outward - is designed in, and the runs are sized to stop cleanly against it on both sides.

Two drawers of different heights means two different calculations. They are done separately, which is why the borders look identical and are not.

Material: Solid teak carcass, drawer boxes, apron and legs with a natural marble top. No veneer over engineered board.

Top: Natural marble, cut to the shaped case outline and hand-dressed. Stone type and veining chosen with you.

Construction: Carved gilt leaf-and-bead borders sized to divide evenly on each drawer front with designed corner elements, carved gilt shell centres, carved shell apron with side scrolls, cabriole legs with carved leaf knees and scrolled toes.

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

Finish: Ivory with gilt detail, as photographed. Any tone and gilding level can be specified.

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

Available: Singly or as a matched pair.

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

The marble top travels separately and on edge in its own braced crate, faced on both sides and cushioned continuously along the shaped edge - stone chips at an edge if it is allowed to shift at all, and a shaped outline has no corner to brace against.

The table frame is wrapped in a soft non-abrasive layer laid straight onto the ivory finish, then given shaped foam with additional thickness along the gilt drawer borders. Gilded mouldings sit proud of the panel they enclose and are exactly where a knock would land.

The carved shell at the centre of the apron projects lowest on the front and is given its own rigid guard, and each cabriole leg is sleeved individually with a guard over the scrolled toe.

Both drawers are removed or secured shut so nothing can run out and strike a gilt border.

Both packages then go into rigid outer cartons braced internally. Ordered as a pair, all four packages are crated separately. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed, and our team beds the stone onto the frame in your room.

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, marble selection, drawer layout, gilding level and finish are confirmed in writing. Stone dressing and gilding both take time and cannot be hurried, so we give you an honest timeline then and keep you updated as the piece moves through carving, gilding, stone fitting and finishing.

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

On arrival our team brings both packages in, sets and beds the marble top onto the frame, checks the table sits level and the drawers run cleanly, and removes all packaging. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the carcass, both drawer boxes, the carved apron and every leg joint.

A stone top makes the frame beneath it matter more than usual. Marble is unforgiving of a carcass that twists even slightly, because the bearing then becomes uneven along the whole shaped edge and the load concentrates at a few points. Our carcasses are jointed solid teak, cut so the frame stays square under the weight it is carrying.

The cabriole legs are carved from solid stock with the curve following the grain, and the carved leaf at each knee adds section exactly where the leg meets the case - the joint that takes the most load on a table carrying stone.

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 paint over them.

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