Wooden Cot Design in Carved Teak - Champagne with Carved Lattice Foot

The pineapple has been a carver's motif for three hundred years for a reason that sounds odd now: it meant hospitality. When the fruit was rare and difficult to transport, putting one on the table announced that a guest was welcome, and carvers moved it onto gateposts, bedposts and stair newels as a permanent version of that gesture. It survived because it also happens to be a wonderful shape to carve - a body of repeating diamond scales rising to a crown of leaves.

The lattice on the footboard comes from a different tradition entirely: the carved imitation of woven cane, which Indian and European workshops both took up when caned furniture became fashionable and someone realised the pattern could be cut in solid wood and last far longer than cane ever would.

Both motifs are about repetition, and repetition is the hardest thing to carve well. Every scale on the pineapple and every crossing on the lattice has to sit at the same depth as its neighbours or the whole surface flickers. Our master Indian artisans cut these grids in passes across the entire panel rather than one unit at a time, which is what keeps the depth even.

Material: Solid teak throughout, including headboard, posts, footboard, rails and the bedside chests.

Footboard: Central panel carved as a woven lattice in relief, carved rose and acanthus swag above with a gilded centre drop, carved scroll corners.

Headboard: Carved centre panel with tall foliate crest, two shield-shaped buttoned upholstered panels, carved scroll and flower framing.

Posts: Two carved head posts in banded sections with carved pineapple finials.

Upholstery: Made in the fabric and colour of your choice.

Finish: Shown in champagne with paler highlighting, and available in gold, ivory, antique bronze or natural teak tones.

Bedside chests: Bowed fronts, carved corners, moulded tops. Included as shown, available in any quantity.

Storage: Available with hydraulic lift-up storage or base drawers designed in.

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

Relief carving cut as a repeating grid is easy to damage in one place and impossible to hide, so the lattice footboard is packed with a soft layer following the crossings and a rigid frame around it, so nothing bears down on the raised bands themselves.

The pineapple finials, standing at the top of the posts, are collared in shaped foam that surrounds the leaves without pressing on their tips, and the posts are cradled in their own boxes.

The headboard crest is foam-faced, the carved swag on the footboard blocked at its high points, and the buttoned shield panels bagged in breathable covers so the fabric arrives clean.

Rails are bundled and edge-guarded, fittings sealed in a labelled pouch, chests packed with drawers secured and carved corners protected. Everything is crated together with handling instructions marked outside. Every photograph on this page shows the actual bed, taken before packing - real furniture, not a render.

Delivery is free anywhere in India and included in the price you are quoted, with nothing for freight, packing or handling added later.

Production begins once your size, fabric and finish are confirmed in writing. We give you a realistic timeline then and send photographs of your own bed as the lattice is cut, the finials carved and the finish laid.

On arrival the bed is carried in and assembled in your bedroom: posts stood, headboard and footboard joined to the rails, everything levelled to your floor, and the bedside chests placed where you want them. We guarantee dent-free arrival, and if anything is not right when you see it, tell us and we will put it right.

Twenty years of warranty cover the solid teak frame and joinery: the headboard structure, the posts, the footboard panel, the side rails and every joint between them. A lattice-carved panel has material removed across its whole face, so the frame around it carries more of the load, and that frame is built and guaranteed accordingly.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with it for as long as you own the bed, backed by teak's own resistance and confirmed in writing.

Anything you want done later fits properly, because we keep the specification of your exact bed on file - re-covering the shield panels to the same shape and buttoning, refreshing the champagne finish, replacing drawer runners or pulls, or adding a matching piece to the room. Our own master Indian artisans carry out the work and tell you what it involves and how long it takes beforehand.