{"title":"Sofas","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIndian seating solved comfort before upholstery arrived, cane breathes where cushions swelter, a carved frame outlasts three re-covered sofas and a diwan hosts everything from the grandmother's nap to the guest who stayed for dinner. This collection holds our seating in that tradition, hand woven cane over solid teak frames, carved crests, scrolled arms, built for the sitting a house actually does. Add a gaddi and bolsters, or keep it bare the traditional way and let the weave stay cool under you all summer.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"carved-teak-bench-with-hand-painted-tiles","title":"Carved Teak Bench with Hand-Painted Tiles","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the bench that goes in the entrance, where people sit to take their shoes off and where guests notice it before they notice anything else in the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe backrest alternates between two things. Three pierced jali panels, cut through by hand in a repeating floral lattice, and two painted ceramic tiles in blue and gold. Above them runs a scalloped crest rail carved in a flowing scroll. Below, a row of shaped fretwork panels finishes the apron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe arms curve outward and rest on fan-carved brackets, each holding a third and fourth tile. Turned legs at the front, plain at the back, solid teak throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe seat is left bare, polished wood, wide enough for three. Add cushions if you want, or leave it as it is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49710635024612,"sku":null,"price":9999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/CarvedTeakBenchwithHand-PaintedTiles.webp?v=1787577645"},{"product_id":"sheesham-carved-storage-bench","title":"Sheesham Carved Storage Bench","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe seat lifts. Everything else about this piece is decoration around a box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe back is a shaped panel, arched at the centre and carved in relief the full width, foliate scrolls filling the field edge to edge with no plain ground left. The top rail runs as a plain moulded curve above it, so the eye gets somewhere to rest. Below the carving, a short run of pierced fretwork lets light through at the shoulder line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eArm panels carry the same relief work on a smaller field, capped with a plain moulded rail and a turned ball finial at each front corner. Four finials in all, front and back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe seat is three boards, framed and jointed, hinged along the back. Lift it and the whole width of the box is open. The front of the box is two carved panels within a plain frame, matched to the back so the piece reads as one thing rather than a bench with a chest bolted underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFour turned bun feet. Low, so nothing rocks when the lid comes up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt goes where you need something to happen twice, an entryway where shoes come off and go away in the same movement, or the foot of a bed. Not against a wall with a skirting board that stops the lid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade in our Jodhpur workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729130856676,"sku":null,"price":99999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/SheeshamCarvedStorageBench.webp?v=1787818553"},{"product_id":"sheesham-daybed-with-caned-ends-and-upholstered-seat","title":"Sheesham Daybed with Caned Ends and Upholstered Seat","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLong enough to sleep on, backed like a sofa, which puts it in the room where the guest count keeps changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe seat is a single upholstered platform in plain cream, no divisions, running the full length of the frame. The back rest is separate, a padded panel curved at the top and finished with a line of brass nailhead trim along its outer edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth ends are caned. Full panels of hand woven cane set into moulded frames, so the piece stays open at the sides and does not read as a solid box from across a room. Turned ball finials cap the corner posts, four of them and the front posts below are fluted and turned with collars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe show wood frame is left exposed all the way round, arms, back rail and base, with the upholstery sitting inside it rather than wrapping over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSix turned legs, three a side. A frame this long needs the centre pair, whatever it does to the look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCane ends and a light fabric both dislike direct sun. Put it along a wall or facing a window, not in one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade in our Jodhpur workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729559920868,"sku":null,"price":11999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/SheeshamDaybedwithCanedEndsandUpholsteredSeat.webp?v=1787825501"},{"product_id":"hand-caned-teak-diwan-daybed-with-carved-crest","title":"Hand Caned Teak Diwan Daybed with Carved Crest","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery Indian house has one seat that outranks the sofa, and it's this one. The diwan is where the afternoon actually happens, the grandmother's nap, the newspaper read twice, the guest who said five minutes and stayed for tea, and the reason it beats upholstery at all of it is simple, cane breathes. In May, when a cushioned sofa turns into a radiator, a woven seat stays cool under you, which is why this form has survived every fashion the last century threw at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStraight with you on two things. Bare cane is the traditional way and the cool way, but most households will want a thin gaddi and a pair of bolsters on it for long sitting, and those aren't included, the diwan arrives as you see it. And cane is a living material, it flexes, it settles, and it wants to live indoors, a covered veranda at most, never out in the rain, and treated that way the weave outlasts most sofas' second reupholstering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor the drawing room that hosts properly, the veranda with a ceiling fan, or anyone who grew up napping on one of these and has been quietly missing it since. The afternoon is waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729649082596,"sku":null,"price":6999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/HandCanedTeakDiwanDaybedwithCarvedCrest.webp?v=1787827117"},{"product_id":"carved-oak-frame-leather-sofa-set-tan-pebbled","title":"Carved Oak Frame Leather Sofa Set, Tan Pebbled","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeating set, pebbled leather on carved oak, late 20th century European manufacture. Specimens of this type migrated in large numbers to the subcontinent, where they achieved their final and most powerful form: the daftar sofa.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat the Scholars Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFuture excavators of the Indian office cabin will recognise this immediately, the sofa of the sahab, the one visitors were shown to while the peon brought water, it's heavy carved posts with their melon-topped finials announcing authority before a word was spoken. The pebbled tan leather that forgives everything, the rope-carved rail, the rosette medallions, the block feet panelled with diamonds. A set built so solidly that its rob outlasted three changes of management.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIts Domestic Posting\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt home it serves the same office with better company, the drawing room wall that faces the door, so arrivals meet it first, or a study where one man, one newspaper and one sofa complete each other. The three-seater holds the family, the two-seater holds the guests and the argument about which is which never ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eConservation Notes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLeather asks little, a dry dust weekly, a leather conditioner twice a year and distance from direct sun. The carved oak takes a soft brush along the rope moulding. Built heavy on purpose. 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