Velvet Dining Chairs Set in Carved Teak with Rose Garland Frames

The hardest line on any upholstered chair is where the cloth stops and the timber starts. It has to be dead straight, it has to follow a curve, and it has to hide a staple line and a raw fabric edge - and on ruched upholstery it is harder still, because the gathers arrive at that line at slightly different thicknesses all the way along.

Most chairs solve it with a braid or a cord laid over the join. It works, and it is a strip of trim sitting on top of the problem.

These chairs solve it with carving instead. The rose garland across the shoulder of the frame is not applied decoration in the usual sense - it is positioned so that its lower edge oversails the junction, and it is carved with a rebate along that edge so the upholstery tucks up underneath it. The gathers finish inside the rebate, where nothing has to be even, and what shows is roses.

Which means the carving has to be made after the upholstery is trial-fitted rather than before. The garland is cut, offered up, and the rebate adjusted to the actual thickness of the gathered cloth on that particular chair.

It is the reverse of the usual order of work, and it is why the join on these chairs is not visible at all rather than being covered up.

Set: one dining table with chairs and carvers, made together as one commission.

Frames: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans.

Chair backs: velvet gathered into vertical ruching, finishing inside a rebate carved into the underside of the rose garland so no junction line shows.

Garlands: carved roses across the shoulder of each frame, cut and rebated to the trial-fitted upholstery of that chair.

Legs: swept sabre, with scrolled arms on the carvers.

Table top: shaped with a moulded edge over a carved frieze.

Base: carved pedestal with rose detail on scrolled feet.

Upholstery: teal velvet as photographed; any velvet, fabric or leather available.

Finish: hand-applied soft cream; other tones available.

Dimensions: custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

Ruched velvet marks under pressure more readily than flat velvet, because the gathers stand proud. Each chair back is covered in soft non-abrasive sheeting laid on loosely, never pulled tight across the gathers.

The carved rose garlands project beyond the frame and are the most fragile carving on the chair; each is padded individually with foam formed around the roses rather than pressed against them.

Chairs are crated separately and never nested. The shaped table top travels face-protected with a rigid board and edge-protected continuously; the pedestal's rose detail and scrolled feet are boxed in shaped foam.

Unpack the chairs first, then the base, then the top. If the ruching looks flattened after unwrapping, brushing lightly along the pile lifts it back within a day.

Delivery is free anywhere in India for the whole set, and every piece is guaranteed to arrive dent-free. If anything is wrong when the crates are opened, correcting it is our cost, and we commit to that before you order.

Production begins once the table size, chair count, velvet and finish are confirmed in writing. Because each garland is rebated to its own chair's trial-fitted upholstery, carving and upholstery run alongside each other rather than in sequence, and we explain that timeline at the start.

Dispatch waits for the finish to cure fully. We update you as each stage completes and send tracking as soon as the crates leave us.

Open the crates with the delivery team present and check every piece. Send us your doorway, lift and stair measurements at the order stage and we set the top size to a dimension that will reach the room.

Every frame in the set carries a 20-year warranty on solid teak frame and joinery - the table, its pedestal and each chair and carver on identical terms. The carved garlands are part of the frame and are covered with it.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs on every piece, resting on teak's own oils rather than on an applied treatment, and issued in writing with the set.

Both documents are tied to your order and handed over on delivery. If a covered fault appears on one piece, send photographs and we repair or replace that piece alone.

Velvet and hand-applied finishes are wearing surfaces and are handled separately. Because the garland rebate is cut to each chair's own upholstery, a re-cover is done by us rather than by a general upholsterer - and we hold your specification on file so it is repeated exactly.