Round Coffee Table in Carved Teak with Figural Legs and Glass Top

Three legs are not a stylistic flourish on this table. They are the reason it will never rock.

Any three points define a plane - it is simple geometry, and it means a three-legged table sits solid on any floor, however uneven. A four-legged table has no such guarantee: the four feet have to lie in a plane themselves, and the floor has to be flat, and if either is out by a millimetre the table rocks. Every wobbling restaurant table in the world is a four-legged one, and no amount of folded paper truly fixes it.

Old workshops knew this, which is why three-legged tables were the traditional choice for uneven stone and timber floors - and why so many of them survive.

The trade-off is that a three-legged table is easier to tip if you lean on one edge, so the geometry has to be right: the legs splay wider than the top, and the serpentine stretcher ties them together low down where it adds the most resistance to spreading. Set out properly, you get a table that is both steady on the floor and steady under a hand.

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

Legs: three figural legs, each carved in the round from a single blank, with a carved head at the top, gilded acanthus and a scrolled gilded foot.

Frieze: continuous carved and gilded leaf run around the full circumference.

Stretcher: serpentine three-arm stretcher meeting at a carved central boss.

Top: round glass panel with a polished edge. Thickness and tint set by you, toughened if you prefer.

Finish: deep brown hand polish with gold highlights. The amount of gilding is set by you.

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 carved heads at the tops of the legs and the gilded feet at the bottom are the projecting parts, and both get shaped foam collars before anything else is done.

The frieze leaf run is covered with a continuous foam strip right around the circumference, and the serpentine stretcher is wrapped along its length with its central boss collared separately.

The glass travels in its own carton. A round panel has no corners to brace against, so it sits inside a shaped former that holds it centred, edge-protected all the way round with dense foam and carried flat between rigid boards. A soft non-abrasive layer covers the polish and gilding on the base. 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 base together - no zone rates, no distance surcharge, no fragile surcharge. The same cost delivered to Vijayawada as to Dehradun.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. Both cartons leave in multi-layer protective packaging, travel with handlers briefed on glass and figure 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, glass specification and finish are confirmed in writing. Figure carving takes real time, so we give you a realistic timeline rather than an optimistic one, keep you updated as the work progresses, 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 joints where the legs meet it, the legs themselves, and the stretcher and its central boss. 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.

On a three-legged table each joint carries more than it would on four, so the joinery matters more rather than less - and that is exactly what a twenty-year term stands behind. 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.