Solid Teak Bed in Natural Finish - Tall Pierced Headboard with Flowers

The basket of flowers is one of the most persistent motifs in Indian carved woodwork, and it turns up on temple doors, haveli panels and marriage chests alike. Its appeal to a carver is practical: a basket gives a firm geometric base - woven bands, a foot, a rim - and the flowers spilling out of it give complete freedom above. Structure below, improvisation above. Very few motifs offer both.

Piercing the headboard above it is the older Indian idea of jaali - a screen cut through so air and light pass. In stone it cooled courtyards; in wood on a bed it simply keeps a very tall headboard from becoming a wall, and lets the colour of your room show through the pattern.

Leaving the whole thing unstained is the decision that ties it together. Our master Indian artisans carve differently for a natural finish: there is no colour and no gilding to reveal the form, so every cut has to be deep enough to shadow itself. The bed is finished the moment the carving is right, which is a harder standard than it sounds.

Material: Solid teak throughout, including headboard, footboard, rails, feet and the bedside chests. No upholstery, no gilding.

Headboard: Tall pointed form with the upper section pierced through in scrolling stems and flowers; raised oval medallion below holding a carved flower basket in a beaded moulding; foliate scrolls to the shoulders.

Footboard: Large carved oval with a flower basket in relief, carved scroll and leaf to both corners, carved feet.

Finish: Natural teak, sealed and polished but unstained; also available in mid brown, walnut or espresso.

Upholstery option: A padded panel can be built into the lower headboard without altering the pierced section above.

Bedside chests: Two drawers each, carved fronts, moulded tops, cabriole legs. Included as shown, available in any quantity.

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

The pierced upper headboard is the most delicate large panel we ship. Shaped foam is pressed into the openwork from both faces so every thin stem and flower is supported rather than left free to flex, and the pointed apex - the narrowest part of the whole panel - is given a rigid shell of its own.

The raised flower basket medallions at head and foot stand proud of their panels and are each collared in shaped foam.

Natural polished teak shows scuffs clearly, so every surface is covered first in a soft non-marking layer laid on without tension.

The foliate shoulder scrolls and carved feet are blocked individually. Rails are bundled and edge-guarded, fittings sealed in a labelled pouch, and the chests packed with drawers secured and cabriole legs protected. Everything is crated together with handling instructions. Every photograph here is of 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 and finish are confirmed in writing. We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs of your own bed as the headboard is pierced and the flower baskets carved - this is a bed where the progress photographs are worth watching.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: headboard raised and joined to the rails, footboard fitted, everything levelled to your floor, and the bedside chests placed where you want them. Tell us your ceiling height and access when you order, since the headboard is tall. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right, tell us and we will make it right.

The solid teak frame and joinery are covered for 20 years - the headboard, the footboard, the side rails, the carved feet and every joint between them. On a bed with a pierced headboard this tall, the internal framing has to carry the crest without a continuous top rail bracing it, and it is built and guaranteed for that.

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.

An unstained bed is the simplest of all to maintain and renew. It can be sanded back and re-polished as many times as you like, and because there is no stain or paint to match, the result is always consistent. If you decide years later that you want it darker, the same bed takes a walnut or espresso finish without any preparation beyond sanding. Our own master Indian artisans do the work and explain it beforehand.