Round Centre Table in Gilded Teak with Marble Top and Floral Carving

A round top is never checked by measuring its diameter, because a shape can measure the same width in every direction and still not be a circle.

That sounds like a curiosity, but it is a real workshop problem. Measure across a slightly egg-shaped top at a dozen angles and you can get the same figure each time if the high and low points fall opposite each other. The table will look right on the bench and wrong in the room, because the eye reads a circle against the straight lines around it - a wall, a rug edge, the front of a sofa - and picks up an error of a millimetre or two instantly.

So roundness is tested from the centre, not across the width. A pointer is fixed at the exact centre of the top and set to just touch the edge, then the top is rotated slowly beneath it. Any point that lifts the pointer or leaves a gap is out. Radius, not diameter - because every point on a true circle is the same distance from one centre, and nothing else is.

The same check is used on the timber frieze ring below, so that the stone and the carving stay concentric all the way round.

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

Top: stone, cut and polished to a true circle. Marble, granite or another stone of your choosing.

Frieze: carved floral garland running the full circumference below the top.

Apron: pierced floral scrollwork around a central cartouche.

Legs: carved cabriole legs shaped from solid blanks, finishing in scrolled feet.

Stretcher: curved cross stretcher rising to a carved central finial.

Finish: hand-applied gold on the timber. 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 stone travels separately from the base, and a round slab needs a different kind of protection from a rectangular one - it has no corners to brace against, so it is boxed inside a shaped former that holds it centred.

Its edge is protected all the way round with dense foam, faced with a soft layer, and it is carried flat between rigid boards rather than on edge.

The base is wrapped with a soft non-abrasive layer over the gilding. The scrolled feet and the carved finial on the stretcher get deep foam collars, and the pierced apron is supported with foam fitted into its voids so the carved bridges cannot flex. The floral frieze gets a continuous foam strip right around the circumference. Corrugated panels then 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 Indore as to Imphal.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. Both cartons leave in multi-layer protective packaging, travel with handlers briefed on stone and gilded carving, 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 diameter, stone and finish are confirmed in writing. Cutting and polishing a true circle in stone takes 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 base and its joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the frieze ring, the apron, the joints where the legs meet it, the legs, and the stretcher and its central joint. 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 round table on four splayed legs is more prone to racking than a square one, which is precisely why the cross stretcher is there and why the joinery is warranted this long. All of it is built from start to finish in our own workshop by the master Indian artisans who make every piece we sell, from timber we season ourselves.