Walnut Dining Table Set in Solid Teak with Buttoned Chairs

A polished timber surface can be built two ways, and they look completely different in the fifth year.

The quick way is to lay the finish thickly - a few heavy coats that fill the grain and sit on top of the wood as a film. It looks glossy immediately, and it behaves like a skin: when it is scratched, the scratch is white, because you are looking at a break in a layer rather than at the wood.

The slow way is many thin coats, each one cut back with fine abrasive before the next goes on. Most of every coat is removed; what stays is the part that has soaked into the grain. After enough of them, the surface is level and deep, but there is very little film on top - the shine is coming from wood that has been filled and burnished, not from a layer over it.

Our tops take a great many coats built that way, and the last is worked by hand rather than sprayed. It is slower and it uses more material for less apparent thickness.

The return comes later. A scratch in a thin-built finish is a mark in the wood, and it can be polished out or left to blend. A scratch in a thick film is a white line that stays white until the whole surface is stripped. On a table that will be used every day for decades, that is the difference that matters.

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

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

Top: moulded edge over a carved scrolled apron.

Legs: cabriole with carved knees and scrolled feet, on both table and chairs.

Chairs: shaped carved crests over lightly buttoned upholstered backs, with upholstered seats.

Upholstery: cream woven cloth as photographed; any fabric or leather available.

Finish: hand-polished warm walnut, built in many thin coats each cut back before the next, with the last worked by hand; lighter and darker tones and painted finishes also available.

Joinery: mortise and tenon throughout, corner-blocked at every seat rail.

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

A polished timber surface is scratched by grit rather than by impact, so the top is wiped clean and wrapped in soft non-abrasive sheeting before any firmer material comes near it, with a rigid board across its full face.

The moulded top edge runs the whole perimeter and is the first thing to meet a door frame, so it is padded continuously rather than only at the corners.

Chairs are crated individually and never nested, with the upholstered faces covered in soft sheeting and the carved crests and knees padded to their own shapes.

Unpack the chairs first, then the table. Nothing needs dismantling and no fixing has to be undone.

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, upholstery and polish tone are confirmed in writing. A thin-built polish takes longer than a heavy one because each coat must be cut back before the next, and that is built into the schedule we share with you.

Dispatch waits for the polish 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 and all six chairs on identical terms.

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, so the record stays with you. If a covered fault appears on one piece, send photographs and we repair or replace that piece alone.

Upholstery and polish are wearing surfaces and are handled separately from the structural cover. A thin-built polish on solid timber is the easiest of all finishes to renew - a mark can often be polished out locally, and the whole top can be sanded back and re-polished to new condition. We do that work on our own furniture at any age.