Royal Luxury Handcrafted Carved Teak Sofa | Silver Leaf and Linen Tufted

The Story Behind This Sofa

Silver leaf is genuinely harder to work with than gold, and almost nobody explains why.

Gold does not tarnish. Silver does - it reacts with sulphur compounds in ordinary air and darkens over time, which on a sofa frame would show first at the raised carved edges where the leaf is thinnest. So a silvered frame cannot simply be leafed and left; it has to be sealed with a protective coat after burnishing, and that coat has to be laid thin enough not to dull the metal it is protecting. Too heavy and the frame looks like painted grey; too light and it will darken within a few years.

The leaf itself is applied the same way as gold - tissue-thin sheets laid by hand over a prepared ground, one overlapping section at a time, then burnished up. Because silver is cooler and flatter in tone, it hides less than gold does, so the carving underneath is sanded further before any metal touches it. Every tool mark that gold would break up with warmth, silver shows.

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: Louis XV camelback carved show-wood sofa, restrained carving
• Finish: Hand-laid silver leaf, burnished and sealed with a protective coat against tarnishing; customisable to gold leaf, antique gold, ivory and silver, or dark wood polish
• Carved detail: Carved shell crest to the camelback rail, carved arm volutes with rosette bosses, carved apron with central shell, carved cabriole legs
• Upholstery: Button-tufted linen back, two loose seat cushions, closed swept arms; linen, damask, velvet, jacquard and genuine leather all available
• Seating: Made to order as a 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 or 9 seater, corner or L shape, with matching single chairs and centre table
• Size: Length, seat height and seat depth all custom - share your room dimensions and we will quote
• Make: Made to order, handcrafted by master Indian artisans
• Delivery: Pan-India, free shipping

Packaging and Transit Protection

Two things need protecting here and both are easily marked: a sealed silver-leaf frame and a pale linen. The silvered carving - the shell crest, both arm volutes, the apron shell and all four cabriole legs - is individually wrapped in high-density foam and taped clear of the metal, because adhesive lifted off silver leaf takes the protective seal with it.

Pale linen is wrapped in soft breathable cloth, never sealed plastic; on a light natural fibre, trapped condensation on a long road journey leaves tide marks that do not brush out. A moisture barrier goes outside the cloth, then a full foam blanket. The two loose seat cushions are bagged separately so they arrive uncrushed. The sofa is corner-guarded, blocked into a fitted crate with foam on every face, marked for orientation and lifting points, and photographed wrapped and sealed before dispatch.

Shipping and Delivery

Every sofa is built to order. Typical lead time is 8 to 10 weeks from order confirmation. Silver leaf adds a stage over a polished finish because the sealing coat has to cure before upholstery begins. Larger configurations take longer - a 5, 7 or 9 seater set is several frames carved, leafed and upholstered individually rather than one long sofa. We share progress photographs after carving, after leafing and after upholstery.

Delivery is free anywhere in India - Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and elsewhere. Our team unloads, unwraps, places and levels the sofa and fits the cushions at your address rather than leaving crates at the gate. Please confirm doorway, stair and lift dimensions in advance, since a carved show-wood frame cannot be forced through a tight opening - the carving takes the load rather than a soft upholstered edge. 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. Fabric and foam are consumable components covered separately.

Silver leaf needs one thing gold does not: protection from air-borne tarnishing. The sealing coat we apply does that job, but it can be worn through by rubbing - so never clean the silvered frame with a cloth, and never with any liquid. Use a clean dry soft brush only. Keep the sofa away from open flame lamps, incense and cooking areas, since combustion products accelerate tarnishing. Linen upholstery should be vacuumed weekly with a brush attachment and spills blotted immediately, never rubbed - linen shows watermarks readily, so blot straight down and let it dry naturally rather than applying water to spread the mark. Rotate the two seat cushions monthly and keep the sofa out of direct sunlight.