Luxury Console Table in Gilded Teak with Carved Mask Apron

Of everything on this console, the face at the centre is the hardest thing to carve - not because it is intricate, but because of who is looking at it.

People are extraordinarily good at reading faces. We spend our whole lives doing it, and the part of us that does it is unforgiving: an eye a millimetre higher than its partner, or a mouth a degree off level, registers immediately as something being wrong, even to someone who cannot say what. Nobody looks at an acanthus leaf that way. A leaf can be improvised; a face cannot.

So the mask is carved with the centre line preserved on the block for as long as possible - it is the last thing removed, and everything is measured from it rather than from the edges. The eyes are cut last, and both in the same sitting, because a carver's hand and eye change slightly between one day and the next.

When it is done, the face reads as calm. That is the whole objective: not expressive, not clever - simply right enough that the eye passes over it and moves on to the scrollwork.

Base: solid teak throughout, hand-carved by master Indian artisans, with traditional joinery at every junction.

Top: shaped grey veined marble with a moulded edge. Other stones can be specified.

Apron: pierced scrolling foliage with a carved mask at the centre and a carved pendant below.

Legs: openwork double-curved legs of carved scroll and leaf, modelled from both faces.

Stretcher: shaped stretcher with a carved foliate centrepiece.

Finish: hand-applied gold over the carving. Silver, champagne, antiqued tones or plain polished teak are also available.

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

Photography: images on this page are of the actual product, not renders.

The mask projects further than anything else on this console and sits at the centre of the front, so it is the first thing protected - a deep shaped foam collar standing proud of the face itself.

The pierced apron and the openwork legs both get foam fitted into their larger openings so the carved bridges cannot flex, with foam bands around their outer edges. The stretcher centrepiece and the scrolled feet are collared individually.

The stone travels in its own carton, edge-protected all round and carried flat between rigid boards. A soft non-abrasive layer covers all the gilded surfaces first, laid smoothly. Corrugated panels build a rigid shell, the base is blocked and braced, and both outer cartons are edge-reinforced. Everything unwraps by hand, and the top is placed on arrival.

Free PAN-India delivery is included in the price, stone and base together - no zone rates, no distance surcharge, no charge for the weight of the slab. The same cost delivered to Hyderabad as to Howrah.

Dent-free arrival is guaranteed. Both cartons leave in multi-layer protective packaging, travel with handlers briefed on stone and figure carving, and are checked at every transfer point. If anything is not right when you open either, tell us and we make it right - the guarantee sits with us, not with the transporter.

Because the console is made to order, production begins once your dimensions, stone and finish are confirmed in writing. Figure carving and openwork both take real time, so we give you a realistic timeline rather than an optimistic one, and send a dispatch note with an expected delivery window.

The solid teak base and its joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the top frame, the pierced apron, the openwork legs, the joints between them and the stretcher. If a joint opens or a member fails within those twenty years, we repair or replace it.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs alongside it and never expires. Teak's natural oils are what termites avoid, and our seasoning and finishing routine is built around preserving them, so the timber is guaranteed for as long as the console is yours.

Legs carved almost entirely as openwork are the part owners wonder about. They are cut from thick solid stock with the load path through the solid sections, not the ornament, which is why a term this long is realistic. All of it is built in our own workshop by the master Indian artisans who make everything we sell, from timber we season ourselves.