Black and Gold King Size Bed - Carved Teak with Velvet Tufting

Why Black Velvet and Not Black Leather

Black is the most demanding colour to upholster a large panel in, because black absorbs light and a big absorbing surface reads as a hole rather than as a material. Black leather makes that worse: it is smooth, so it reflects light in one hard specular line and stays flat everywhere else. Velvet solves the problem physically. Its pile stands up from the backing, and light entering at an angle scatters off the fibre ends, so the panel shifts between charcoal, near-black and a soft sheen depending on where you stand and where the lamps are. On a bed, where you approach from a doorway and then sit beside it, that change is the difference between a panel with depth and a panel with none.

The gold was aged for the same reason. Bright gold against black is a maximum-contrast pairing and it can tip into looking hard rather than deep. Working the finish darker in the recesses and burnishing it back only on the raised carving keeps a gradient across every scroll, so the frame reads as modelled rather than outlined. Setting crystal buttons rather than fabric-covered ones was the last decision: on a black panel, a covered button disappears and the tufting geometry vanishes with it. Master Indian artisans carve, finish and upholster each of these by hand, and the images here are of the actual bed.

Specifications: Black and Gold Carved Teak Bed

The bed as photographed is described below. Every line is a starting point, because the piece is built to your order.

• Frame and carving: solid teak wood, hand-carved and hand-finished by master Indian artisans
• Finish: antique gold, darkened in the recesses and burnished on raised carving
• Headboard: tall shaped black velvet panel, deep-buttoned with crystal buttons, under a scrolled carved crest
• Footboard: matching black velvet buttoned panel beneath a carved cartouche, over a full-width carved apron
• Legs: scrolled cabriole legs
• Supplied with: two matching two-drawer bedside chests in the same antique gold
• Upholstery options: black velvet as shown, or leather, silk, linen or your own fabric, in any colour
• Button options: crystal as shown, metal, or fabric-covered
• Finish options: antique gold as shown, or bright gold, champagne, rose gold, silver or a painted colour
• Size: custom sizes made to order; final measurements confirmed in writing before production
• Storage: box, drawer or hydraulic base storage available on request
• Warranty: 20 years on solid teak frame and joinery; lifetime cover against termite damage
• Delivery: free across India with guaranteed dent-free arrival

Packing Velvet and Gilded Carving Together

Velvet and gilding fail in different ways and the packing handles them separately. Velvet crushes: sustained pressure flattens the pile and leaves a mark that may take weeks to lift, if it lifts at all. So the black panels travel face-out against a soft low-friction layer with no strapping run across them and nothing resting on the buttoned areas, and the crystal buttons are relieved in cut foam rather than pressed flat. Gilding scuffs: any abrasive contact takes the burnish off a raised scroll. So every carved section is faced in a non-abrasive wrap, then set into foam cut to its own profile so support sits on solid areas and the projecting crest and cartouche carry nothing.

Corners, cabriole legs and the crown of the crest all take additional rigid edge guards, since those are the first points of contact in any handling error. The assembled crate is strapped rigid, and the two bedside chests are boxed apart with their drawers immobilised so nothing slides and rubs the gold from inside. Multi-layer packing on this scale costs us on every single order and we absorb it, because crushed velvet and scuffed gilding are both visible immediately and neither can be hidden. The bed arrives dent-free and unmarked, or we put it right.

Free PAN-India Delivery, Made After You Order

Delivery is free anywhere in India, with no distance surcharge and nothing added to your invoice for freight. The variable is production. This bed is carved after your order is confirmed, and the frame carries carving across the crest, the uprights, the footboard cartouche, the apron and all four legs, followed by antique gold finishing applied and aged by hand in stages, then velvet upholstery and crystal buttoning on two large panels. We give you a realistic window at sign-off, and if you are working to a fixed date we will tell you at enquiry whether it is achievable rather than agreeing and disappointing you later.

Once complete, the bed ships in contour-cut multi-layer packing under our dent-free arrival guarantee, and we keep you informed from dispatch through to arrival. Our team assembles it in the bedroom and we ask you to check the gilding, the velvet pile and the buttoning while they are still present so anything you are unhappy with is raised on the spot. If your staircase, lift or bedroom door is tight, mention it at enquiry and the frame will be built to break down into sections that will actually pass through.

Guarantees on This Black and Gold Bed

The solid teak frame and joinery are warranted for 20 years from delivery, and termite damage is covered for the entire life of the bed with no expiry. Those are the structural promises and they are the ones worth reading. A carved bed of this weight transfers real load into the leg-to-rail joints, which are cut, glued and pinned to survive decades of use rather than a warranty term. The termite cover runs indefinitely because teak's resistance is a property of the timber rather than a treatment that wears off, and because every board is seasoned and treated before a carver starts work.

The antique gold finish, the velvet, the foam and the crystal buttons sit outside the structural cover. Velvet develops pressure marks in the pile where it is leaned against, which is characteristic of the material rather than a fault, and hand-burnished gold softens at high-contact points. We say that up front instead of leaving you to find out. We re-gild, re-button and reupholster our own beds at any point in their life at an honest price, and because we carved this frame we can remake a single damaged scroll rather than replace a whole component. Keep the bed indoors, away from prolonged direct sun, and do not modify the frame.