White King Size Bed with Tufted Footboard - Carved Teak Greek Key Design

Greek Key Against Rococo Scrolls

The meander, or Greek key, is one of the oldest repeating ornaments in existence and it is entirely geometric: right angles, fixed intervals, no movement. Rococo carving is its opposite, built on asymmetric curves and foliage that never repeats exactly. Combining them on one piece of furniture is unusual for good reason, since done carelessly it looks like two designs that arrived by accident. The rule applied here is territorial. Fretwork occupies only the flat bands, on the headboard uprights and across the footboard rails, where a geometric repeat can run cleanly. Everything shaped or curved, the crest, the cartouches, the volutes at the corners, is left to the scrollwork. Neither language is allowed onto the other one's surface.

The carved urn at the top of the crest is the piece that ties them together. An urn is a classical form, so it belongs to the same world as the fretwork, but it sits at the apex of an openwork rococo crest of scrolls and rose sprays. It is also the most difficult element to carve on this bed, since it stands almost free at the top of the pierced section with very little material supporting it, and it has to be cut in the round from the same block as the scrolls flowing around it. Master Indian artisans carve, finish and upholster each of these by hand, and the images here show the actual piece.

Specifications: White Carved Teak Bed with Tufted Footboard

Below is the bed as photographed. Because it is built to your order, each line can be changed before production.

• Frame and carving: solid teak wood, hand-carved and hand-finished by master Indian artisans
• Finish: white with silver-grey highlighting worked into the raised carving
• Headboard: three shaped deep-buttoned panels beneath a pierced openwork crest
• Crest: openwork scrolls and carved rose sprays rising to a carved urn at the apex
• Footboard: tall, with three separately buttoned panels divided by carved cartouches and framed by scrolled volutes
• Fretwork: Greek key meander carved into the flat bands of both headboard and footboard
• Feet: carved scrolled feet
• Supplied with: two matching bombe-fronted bedside chests in the same white and silver treatment
• Upholstery options: pearl-grey as shown, or leather, velvet, silk, linen or a fabric you supply
• Finish options: white with silver as shown, or white with gold, all-white with no highlight, ivory or champagne
• 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 an Almost Free-Standing Carved Urn

The urn at the top of the crest is the single most exposed carved element on any bed we make. It stands at the highest point, surrounded by pierced openwork rather than solid timber, and there is nothing near it to take a knock on its behalf. It travels in a dedicated void: the foam around the crest is cut so the urn and the pierced scrolls either side of it sit entirely clear, with the padding bearing only on the solid frame below. A rigid guard is fitted over the apex so nothing can strike it in handling.

The Greek key fret bands present a subtler problem. Fretwork is a series of sharp internal corners, and any packing material pressed hard into it will emboss the finish along every angle, which on a white surface shows immediately. Those bands are faced with a soft low-density layer that sits against them without being driven into the cuts. The three buttoned panels on each end travel with no strapping across the tufting, and all white surfaces sit against clean undyed material that cannot transfer colour. Everything is rigid-crated and strapped, with the two chests boxed separately and their drawers immobilised. Dent-free, unmarked and with the carving whole, or we make it right.

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

Delivery is free everywhere in India, with no distance surcharge and nothing added to your invoice for freight. Production is where the time goes on this design, because it carries two separate kinds of ornament and both are cut by hand: the pierced crest and rose sprays are slow rococo carving, and the Greek key fretwork is exacting geometric work where every interval has to be identical or the whole band reads as wrong. After carving comes the white finish in several coats and the silver highlighting, then upholstery and buttoning of six separate panels.

We give you a realistic completion window once your specification is confirmed, and if you are working to a fixed date we will say at enquiry whether it can be met. The bed ships in contour-cut multi-layer packing under our dent-free arrival guarantee and you are kept informed from dispatch through to arrival. Our team assembles it in your bedroom and we ask that you inspect the crest, the fret bands and the buttoning while they are still there. This headboard is tall, so send us your ceiling height with your room dimensions, and mention any narrow staircase, small lift or tight doorway at enquiry.

What Is Guaranteed on This Bed

The solid teak frame and joinery are covered for 20 years from delivery, and termite damage is covered for the life of the piece with no expiry. On this design the clause that matters most is the one covering the pierced crest and the carved urn at its apex, which stand almost free at the top of the headboard with limited supporting material. Those sections are cut from continuous stock rather than assembled from applied pieces, and the junctions where they meet the headboard frame are cut and pinned rather than glued flat. Termite cover has no end date because teak resists termites through oils within the timber rather than through any coating.

The white and silver finish, the upholstery, the foam and the buttoning sit outside the structural warranty. A tall tufted footboard takes more contact than most, since it is where bedding is pulled across and where people lean, and it will show that first. We put that here rather than in fine print. We refinish and reupholster our own beds at any point in their life at an honest price, and because every element was carved in our workshop we can recut a single rose spray, fret band or section of the urn without replacing the whole component. Keep the bed indoors, away from prolonged direct sun, and do not modify the frame.