Oval Centre Table in Gilded Teak with Marble Top and Gallery

The balusters in the gallery are evenly spaced around an oval, and that is a harder thing than it sounds, because an oval has no single radius.

On a circle, spacing is trivial: set a compass to one step and walk it round, and the last division closes perfectly because every part of the curve is identical. An ellipse is not like that. It is tightly curved at the ends and nearly straight along the sides, and its radius changes continuously between them. Walk a compass around it and the steps will crowd at the ends and stretch along the flanks, and the gallery will look wrong long before anyone works out why.

So the spacing here is set out along the curve itself, not across it. A flexible strip is bent around the finished oval, the true length of the perimeter is read off it, and that length is divided into equal parts marked on the strip. The strip goes back onto the table and every mark is transferred to the wood.

Each baluster then sits the same distance from its neighbour measured along the curve - which is what the eye actually reads - even though no two of them stand at the same angle to the centre.

Structure: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans, with traditional joinery at every junction.

Top: stone, cut to a true ellipse, with a pierced carved medallion set at the centre. Marble, granite or another stone of your choosing.

Rim: gilded gadrooned edge running the full perimeter.

Gallery: pierced frieze of turned balusters against a dark ground, banded in black and gold above and below.

Feet: gilded scrolled acanthus feet carved from solid blanks.

Finish: hand-applied gold with black banding. Silver, champagne, antiqued tones or plain polished teak are also available.

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 pierced gallery runs right around this table at its widest point, which makes it both the most fragile part and the first to meet anything.

Foam is fitted behind and between the balusters so the pierced run cannot flex, and a foam band is built around the entire outer face of the gallery so any contact is taken at the packaging rather than the carving. The gadrooned rim gets a continuous strip of its own, since one crushed lobe in a repeating run stands out immediately.

The stone travels separately, held in a shaped former that matches its ellipse, edge-protected with dense foam and carried flat between rigid boards. The scroll feet get individual collars. A soft non-abrasive layer covers all the gilded surfaces first. 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, stone and base together - no zone rates, no distance surcharge, no charge for the weight of the slab. The same cost delivered to Kolhapur as to Kozhikode.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. Both cartons leave in multi-layer protective packaging, travel with handlers briefed on pierced carving, gilding and stone, 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, stone and finish are confirmed in writing. Cutting stone to a true ellipse and setting out a gallery around it both take time, 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 structure and its joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the drum frame, the gallery and its balusters, the rim, and the joints where the feet meet the body. 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.

A drum-bodied table carries its stone top through a continuous frame rather than four legs, so the body has to stay true to its ellipse - and that is what this 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.