Modern Centre Table in Teak with Two-Tone Finish and Glass Insert

The lower shelf on this table is chosen for its grain, which is unusual for a shelf - because on this table you look down through the glass and see it.

On most tables a lower shelf is a working surface. Something is stacked on it, and nobody studies the wood. Here the top is part glass, so from a standing position the shelf is visible through it, in the middle of the room, at the exact angle where light rakes across the grain and shows it best.

So the shelf gets the treatment a top would normally get. The board is chosen for its figure rather than taken from whatever is in the rack; it is laid out so the grain runs along the length rather than across it, and if two boards are needed they are matched at the joint so the pattern continues rather than stopping dead.

Then it is polished to the same standard as the top, on the face nobody would think to check.

It is a small decision that costs a better board. It is also the difference between glass that shows you something and glass that shows you a shelf.

Material: solid teak throughout, shaped and carved by master Indian artisans.

Top: glass panel set into a polished teak surround with a grey moulded edge.

Frieze: fine repeating carved band running below the top on all sides.

Legs: four turned baluster legs with carved collars.

Shelf: wide polished lower shelf, grain-selected and matched, on a grey moulded base.

Finish: two-tone - hand-applied grey on the mouldings and legs, hand polish on the timber faces. Both colours are set by you, or the table can be finished in a single tone.

Glass: thickness and tint set by you - clear, bronze or smoked, toughened if you prefer.

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

Photography: images on this page are of the actual product, not renders.

The glass travels in its own carton - edge-protected with dense foam on all sides, faced with a soft layer, and carried flat between rigid boards.

On the table, the turned legs are the vulnerable parts: they are the only elements standing clear, and their carved collars project. Each leg is sleeved in foam along its full height with collars at the carved bands.

The painted mouldings need a different care from the polished faces - a hand-applied colour scuffs where a wax polish would only dull - so a soft non-abrasive layer is laid over every grey surface first and nothing coarse is allowed near it. A rigid panel goes over the top, and the lower shelf gets its own panel since it is a broad exposed face. Corrugated panels build a rigid shell, the base is blocked and braced, and both outer cartons are edge-reinforced. Everything unwraps by hand.

Free PAN-India delivery is included in the price, glass and table together - no zone rates, no distance surcharge, no fragile surcharge. The same cost delivered to Thane as to Tirunelveli.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. Both cartons leave in multi-layer protective packaging, travel with handlers briefed on glass and painted finishes, and are checked at every transfer point. If anything is not right when you open either, tell us and we make it right - the guarantee sits with us, not with the transporter.

Because the table is made to order, production begins once your size, colours and glass specification are confirmed in writing. A two-tone finish is done in stages with curing time between them, so we give you a realistic timeline rather than an optimistic one, and send a dispatch note with an expected delivery window.

The solid teak and its joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the top frame and its glass rebate, the frieze rails, the turned legs and their joints top and bottom, and the lower shelf and base. If a joint opens or a member fails within those twenty years, we repair or replace it.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs alongside it and never expires. Teak's natural oils are what termites avoid, and our seasoning and finishing routine is built around preserving them, so the timber is guaranteed for as long as the table is yours.

Legs jointed at both ends - into the top frame above and the shelf below - are what keep a table like this rigid without a stretcher, and those eight joints are exactly what the warranty is written around. All of it is built from start to finish in our own workshop by the master Indian artisans who make everything we sell, from timber we season ourselves.