White Side Table in Carved Teak - Silver Highlights with Dark Top

Highlighting is the finishing technique most often done badly, because it looks easy and is not.

The idea is simple: colour only the parts of a carving that stand highest, so they catch the eye the way a raised edge catches light. Done well, it is invisible as a technique - the carving simply looks brighter and deeper than it is. Done badly, it looks like someone has painted a pattern on top of a shape.

The difference is entirely in how the material is loaded and how it is moved. Our finishers take almost nothing on the brush - far less than seems useful - and work it out on a board until the brush is nearly dry. Then it is dragged across the carving at a low angle, so it can only touch the ridges and never reaches into the hollows. If any material is wet enough to run down into a recess, the effect is dead.

The direction matters too. The brush follows the carving - along the length of an acanthus leaf, around the curl of a scroll - never across it. A highlight applied across a form breaks it up rather than describing it.

It is done last, after the white is fully cured, and it cannot be corrected. A hollow that has taken silver stays silver, so the only remedy is to go back to the white and begin again.

Material: Solid teak throughout - case, both drawer boxes, top, carved apron and legs. No veneer over engineered board.

Construction: Bombe case on long splayed cabriole legs, hand-carved apron with acanthus and shell centre, floral sprays worked from the apron across onto each leg knee, dry-brush silver highlighting applied along the carved ridges.

Storage: Two drawers. Counts, depths and internal fittings are configurable.

Finish: White with silver highlighting and a dark inset top, as photographed. Highlight colour, body tone and top tone can all be specified separately.

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

Available: Singly or as a matched pair.

Made: Handcrafted Indian luxury, produced to order by master Indian artisans.

Long splayed legs are the most exposed thing on this table. They project beyond the case in every direction and meet doorframes, trolley edges and lift walls first, so each is sleeved individually along its full length with a rigid guard at the foot and additional padding at the carved knee.

The carved apron hangs low between them, and its acanthus and shell centre is the deepest carving on the piece. Foam is shaped to bridge across it, bearing on the case above rather than into the ornament.

A white finish shows a scuff as clearly as any surface can, so the wrap laid directly against it is soft, lint-free and applied without tension anywhere it could burnish.

The dark inset top is faced separately within its border so nothing bears on the surrounding moulding.

Both drawers are removed or secured shut. The table then goes into a rigid outer carton braced internally. Ordered as a pair, each is crated separately. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed.

Free delivery is included anywhere in India, with no distance surcharge and nothing added at the end. Metros, tier-two cities and smaller towns are served on the same terms, and a pair ships on the same free terms as a single table.

Production begins once your dimensions, drawer layout, highlight colour and finish tones are confirmed in writing. Highlighting is applied last, only after the white has fully cured, so the sequence cannot be compressed - we give you an honest timeline and keep you updated as the piece progresses.

We dispatch through carriers experienced with carved and painted furniture, and send tracking details as soon as it leaves us.

On arrival our team brings the table in, positions it, checks it stands true on your floor and that the drawers run cleanly, and removes all packaging. Dent-free arrival is guaranteed - if anything is not right, tell us and we will resolve it.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the case, both drawer boxes, the carved apron and every leg joint.

The legs carry the most demanding load on this design. They are long, they splay outward, and they stand well beyond the footprint of the case - which means every sideways knock arrives at the joint as leverage rather than as a straight push. Each is carved from solid teak with the curve following the grain, and the floral spray at each knee adds real timber section exactly where the leg meets the carcass.

The carved apron is covered too, and it is doing structural work as well as decorative - it ties the front legs to each other beneath the case.

The teak carries a lifetime warranty against termite damage for as long as you own the piece, from the oils in the timber rather than the paint over them.

If anything covered needs attention, send us your order details and photographs and our artisans will handle the repair or replacement.