Royal Luxury Handcrafted Carved Teak 3 Seater Sofa | Sage Velvet and Gold

The Story Behind This Sofa

This piece is built to be restored rather than replaced, and that is a design decision made at the frame stage.

Everything that wears out on a sofa is a surface: the cloth, the foam, the gilding. Everything that has to last is structure: the frame, its joints, the carving. So the two are deliberately separated here. The upholstery is fixed so it can be stripped and rebuilt without cutting into the frame. The gold is laid on a finished carved surface that can be cleaned back and re-leafed. The joints are mortise and tenon, glued and pinned - which can be knocked apart and re-glued by a restorer decades from now, where a screwed or stapled frame simply cannot.

That is why the carving is worked before finishing and why the show wood is finished before the upholsterer touches it. It means that in twenty years, when the velvet has had its life, you reupholster a sound teak frame in a new cloth rather than throwing the whole sofa away.

Velvet, for its part, is upholstered with the pile running in one consistent direction across every panel - get that wrong and the colour appears to change from panel to panel.

Factual specification for this royal luxury carved teak sofa:

• Material: Solid teak wood frame, hand-carved (no veneer, no engineered wood in load-bearing members)
• Style: Rococo carved show-wood sofa with full-width pierced crest
• Joinery: Mortise and tenon, glued and pinned - designed to be knocked apart and re-glued during future restoration
• Finish: Ivory show wood with gold picked out on the carving; customisable to full gold leaf, antique gold, silver or dark wood polish, and re-leafable in future
• Carved detail: Pierced openwork crest across almost the full back width rising to a carved centre shell, carved arm volutes, pierced carved apron with central shell, carved cabriole legs
• Upholstery: Channel-tufted sage velvet back with buttoned channel heads, sage and gold damask bench seat cushion, velvet outer panels, scatter cushions and tasselled bolsters as photographed
• Velvet: Pile laid in one consistent direction across all panels; velvet, damask, jacquard and genuine leather all available
• Seating: Shown as a 3 seater; made to order as 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9 seater, corner or L shape, with matching single chairs
• Delivery: Pan-India, free shipping

Packaging and Transit Protection

Velvet and a full-width pierced crest are the two problems, and they pull in opposite directions. Velvet must not be compressed - sustained pressure crushes the pile and leaves marks that may never fully lift - while the crest is fragile and needs firm support. So the two are packed differently on the same piece.

All velvet surfaces are covered in soft breathable cloth and then protected with standoff blocking that bridges over them rather than pressing onto the pile; no sealed plastic touches velvet at any point, because trapped moisture marks it permanently. The pierced crest is unshipped where the construction allows and packed in its own foam-lined compartment shaped around the openwork; where it cannot be removed, it is foam-cradled along its full width so no single point takes load. Arm volutes, apron and legs are wrapped individually and taped clear of the gilding. Bolsters and tasselled cushions are bagged separately with tassels wrapped. Crate marked for orientation and lifting points, photographed sealed before dispatch.

Shipping and Delivery

Every sofa is built to order. Typical lead time is 9 to 11 weeks from order confirmation - the full-width pierced crest is the slowest single element in our sofa range, and velvet upholstery takes longer than flat cloth because every panel must be cut and laid with the pile running in one consistent direction. Larger sets take longer again, since a 7 or 9 seater is several frames carved and upholstered individually. We share progress photographs after carving, after gilding and after upholstery.

Delivery is free anywhere in India - Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and elsewhere. Our team unloads, unwraps, places the sofa and fits the cushions at your address. Please confirm doorway, stair and lift dimensions in advance: the crest makes this sofa taller than the seat back suggests, so measure to the top of the carving rather than to the upholstery. International orders quoted case by case.

Craftsmanship Assurance and Care

Our craftsmanship assurance covers the solid teak frame, its joinery and the hand-carving. If a joint works loose or a carved element separates because of a fault in the making - rather than through impact, misuse, or an attempted self-repair - we repair or replace it. Velvet and foam are consumable components with their own service life, covered separately.

Velvet has one care rule that matters more than all the others: always brush the pile in one direction. Vacuum with a brush attachment following the pile, never against it and never with a beater head, which crushes and permanently marks it. Pressure marks and shading where someone has sat are normal in velvet and usually lift with gentle brushing in the pile direction - they are not a defect. Never rub a spill; blot straight down with a dry cloth and let it dry, then brush the pile back. Do not use water or household cleaner on velvet. Dust the gilded carving with a dry soft brush, never a cloth. Keep the sofa out of direct sunlight, which fades sage velvet faster than any other colour we upholster.