Plum Bed Design in Carved Teak - Dark Chocolate Frame with Gold Edges

Edge gilding on a dark ground is a technique that only makes sense if the carving is good. On a pale frame, shadow does the work of showing form; on a dark one there is no shadow to see, because the whole surface is already in shade. The gold line takes its place - it traces the top edge of every carved form, so what you read is the outline of the shape rather than its modelling.

That means the gold has to follow the carving exactly. A line that drifts off the edge and onto the flat, even by a millimetre, reads as a smear on a dark ground where it might pass unnoticed on white.

Our master Indian artisans apply it with the piece lying flat and lit from one side, so the raised edge catches the light and the brush can follow what the eye can actually see. It is slow, it cannot be rushed, and it is why the outlines on this bed stay crisp from the crest right down to the feet.

Material: Solid teak throughout, including headboard, footboard, rails and the bedside chests.

Headboard: Wide carved frame with a shaped buttoned cartouche at the centre, carved rose at the crest, scrollwork spreading to curled shoulders.

Footboard: Two buttoned panels either side of a large carved oval with a centre rose, sweeping carved scroll ends, carved rose below the base rail, blocked feet.

Upholstery: Shown in plum, and made in any fabric and colour you choose.

Finish: Dark chocolate with gold laid along the raised carved edges; also available in walnut, honey teak or ivory, fully gilded, or with edging heavier or omitted.

Bedside chests: Bombe curved fronts, two drawers each, carved legs. Included as shown, available in any quantity.

Storage: Available with hydraulic lift-up storage or base drawers designed in.

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

The sweeping carved scrolls at both ends of the footboard project further than any other part of this bed, so each is packed in a shaped foam shell that supports it along its whole curve rather than at points.

Gold edge lines scuff under friction more easily than a full gilded surface does, because they sit on the highest points of the carving - so every finished surface is covered first in a soft non-abrasive layer laid on loose, with nothing sliding across it.

The carved roses at the crest, the footboard centre and below the base rail each stand proud and are collared individually.

Buttoned panels are bagged in breathable covers. The bombe chest fronts are curved and are packed to their own profile with drawers secured. Rails are bundled, fittings pouched. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here shows the actual bed before packing - not a render.

Delivery is free anywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted, with no freight, packing or handling charge added later.

Production begins once your size, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing. We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs of your own bed as the carving is cut, the dark finish built up and the gold edging laid.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: headboard and footboard joined to the rails, everything levelled to your floor, the finish and upholstery checked over, and the bedside chests placed where you want them. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right when you see it, tell us and we will put it right.

The solid teak frame and joinery are covered for 20 years - the headboard structure, the footboard with its sweeping scroll ends, the side rails, the blocked feet and every joint between them. The outward-sweeping scrolls at the foot are cut from thick stock precisely because they project beyond the frame and take knocks, and that construction is what the warranty stands behind.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with it for as long as the bed is yours, backed by teak's own resistance and confirmed in writing.

Edge gilding can be re-laid whenever you want it refreshed, following the same carved edges, and we record how your bed was finished along with the rest of its specification. The plum panels can be re-covered to the original buttoning grid, or changed to a different colour entirely. Fittings are replaceable with parts made for your piece. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain it beforehand.