Queen Size Bed in Carved Teak - Purple Velvet Buttoned Headboard

Purple was for centuries the most expensive colour a workshop could buy. The original dye came from sea snails in quantities that made it worth more than gold by weight, which is why it ended up reserved for rulers by law in several places. The rules are long gone; the association stuck, and purple still reads as ceremonial in a way no other colour quite manages.

Velvet suits it better than any flat weave, because the pile holds the colour at two depths at once - dark where it lies flat, bright where the light catches the tips - so a purple velvet panel is never the single heavy block that purple paint would be.

The judgement our master Indian artisans make here is about restraint at the other end of the bed. With a headboard this saturated, a footboard carved as densely would leave the eye nowhere to rest, so the footboard is given a single book-matched panel and the carving is kept to its crest and base. The bed has one voice and one echo, not two arguments.

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

Headboard: Shaped upholstered panel buttoned in a close diamond grid, carved frame with pierced centre crest, gilded acanthus scrolling to spiral corners.

Footboard: Book-matched figured teak panel in a gilded moulding, carved crest above, gilded shell at the base rail centre, carved scroll feet.

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

Finish: Shown in walnut with gold on the raised carving, and available in lighter teak tones, ivory, or with no gilding.

Bedside chests: Two drawers each, carved corners, cabriole feet. Included as shown and 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.

Velvet marks more easily than almost any other upholstery, so the headboard panel is bagged first in a breathable cover and nothing firm is allowed to press on the pile at any point in packing.

The gilded carving is then covered in a soft non-abrasive layer, because gold leaf dislikes friction more than it dislikes pressure. The pierced crest gets its own shaped foam shell so the cut-through sections are supported from both faces, and the spiral corners are blocked individually.

The footboard travels as its own panel with the gilded moulding edge-guarded all round and the carved scroll feet collared in foam. Side rails are bundled, fittings sealed into a labelled pouch, and the chests packed with drawers secured and cabriole feet protected.

All of it is crated together and marked with handling instructions. The photographs on this page are of the actual bed, taken before packing - real furniture, not renders.

Delivery is free anywhere in India, included in the quoted price, with no freight, packing or handling charge appearing 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 frame is carved and gilded and the velvet upholstered.

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 velvet checked over, and the bedside chests set where you want them. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right, tell us and we will fix it.

Twenty years of warranty cover the solid teak frame and joinery here: the structure behind the velvet, the footboard, the side rails and every joint between them. It is the part of the bed you stop seeing the day it is delivered, and the part that decides how the bed behaves in year fifteen.

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

Fabric changes with a room, and re-covering is simple because we hold the specification of your exact bed on file: the new panel is cut to the same shaped line and buttoned to the same grid, so it sits into the carved frame as cleanly as the first one did. Gilding can be refreshed the same way, and drawer runners and pulls replaced with parts made for your piece. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and tell you what it involves beforehand.