King Size Bed with Tufted Headboard - Carved Teak in Espresso and Gold

Gold in the Carving, Not on the Frame

There are two ways to gild carved furniture. Cover the whole frame and you get a gold object, bright and unmistakable, which is what most of this market sells. Finish the wood dark and lay gold only where the carving stands proud and you get something different: a dark piece with light running along the edges of the ornament, so the eye reads relief and depth rather than a surface. The second approach is older, it is harder to execute because the gilding has to stop exactly where the relief begins with no bleed onto the flat ground, and it is far more forgiving in a real bedroom.

It also changes what the bed asks of the room around it. An all-gold frame sets the tone for everything else and generally requires the rest of the furniture to fall in behind it. This one sits comfortably beside existing dark wood, teak flooring or brown joinery, which is what most Indian homes actually have. The same logic governs the upholstery: cream panels, plainly buttoned, kept quiet so the carved cartouche at the centre of the footboard and the carved column on the headboard are the things you notice. Every element is carved, finished and upholstered by hand by master Indian artisans, and the photographs on this page show the actual piece.

Specifications: Espresso and Gold Carved Teak Bed

This is the bed as photographed. Because it is built to your order, every line below can be changed.

• Frame and carving: solid teak wood, hand-carved and hand-finished by master Indian artisans
• Finish: dark espresso ground with gold applied only to the raised carved relief
• Headboard: tall shaped panel with two cream deep-buttoned sections either side of a carved central column
• Crest: tiered scrollwork rising above the central column
• Footboard: heavily carved espresso and gold cartouche at the centre, flanked by plain cream upholstered panels
• Legs: carved cabriole legs
• Supplied with: two matching two-drawer bedside chests in the same espresso and gold
• Upholstery options: cream as shown, or leather, velvet, silk, linen or a fabric you supply
• Finish options: espresso with gold as shown, or walnut, mahogany or black ground; silver or champagne relief available
• 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

Protecting Relief Gilding on a Dark Ground

This finish has a particular vulnerability. Because the gold sits only on the raised carving, it occupies exactly the surfaces that stand proud, which are the same surfaces that anything pressing against the bed will touch first. Ordinary padding laid flat across a carved panel would bear directly on every gilded high point. So each carved component travels contour-packed, with foam cut to the profile of the relief so the padding sits into the recesses and the gilded crests of the scrolls carry no contact at all.

The dark espresso ground has its own requirement: a dark polished surface shows scuffs more clearly than a pale one, so those areas are faced across their full width with a soft non-abrasive layer rather than only edge-guarded. Cream upholstered panels travel against clean undyed material that cannot transfer colour, with no strapping across the buttoning. The carved cabriole legs, which project and are slender, are individually wrapped and rigid-guarded. Everything is crated and strapped, with the two chests boxed separately and their drawers immobilised. Dent-free, unscuffed and with the gilding intact, or we make it right.

Free Delivery Across India on This Made-to-Order Bed

Delivery is free anywhere in India with no distance surcharge and nothing added to your invoice for freight. Production begins once your specification is confirmed, since nothing is held in stock. On this design the finishing is the slower half of the job rather than the carving: the espresso ground has to be built up and the gold then applied by hand only to the raised relief, stopping cleanly where the carving meets the flat surface, which is exacting work over the whole frame. We give you a realistic completion window at sign-off and will tell you at enquiry if a fixed date cannot be met.

The bed ships in contour-cut multi-layer packing under our dent-free arrival guarantee and we keep you informed from dispatch to arrival. Our team assembles it in the bedroom and we ask that you inspect the gold relief work and the espresso surfaces with them present, since those are where any transit mark would show, and raise anything you are unhappy with on the spot. If your staircase, lift or bedroom door is tight, tell us at enquiry so the frame can be engineered to break down into sections that will pass through.

What Is Covered on This Bed

The solid teak frame and joinery are guaranteed for 20 years from delivery, and termite damage is covered for the life of the bed with no expiry. The structural work here is concentrated in the carved cabriole legs and the joints where they meet the rails, which is where a bed of this weight either holds for decades or slowly develops movement. Those joints are cut and pinned rather than screwed and are covered for the full term. Termite cover has no end date because teak resists termites through oils in the timber rather than through a coating that wears off, and every board is seasoned and treated before carving.

The espresso finish, the gold relief work, the cream upholstery and the foam sit outside the structural cover. Cream upholstery marks with use, and gold applied to raised carving softens at the points most often touched. Neither is a manufacturing fault and we prefer to write that here rather than in fine print. We re-gild, re-button and reupholster our own beds at any point in their life at an honest price, and because the carving came out of our workshop we can recut and refinish a single damaged scroll rather than replacing a whole component. Keep the bed indoors, away from prolonged direct sun, and do not modify the frame.