{"title":"Tables","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"feed\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"article\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery table here is made in our Jodhpur workshop from solid teak and sheesham and the kind you need depends on what the room is already doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn most houses the dining table is not only a dining table. It is where the kids spread out their books, where the ironing happens on Sunday and where the whole thing gets cleared in 10 minutes because guests have turned up without calling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat is why we cut the tops thick and finish them hard, so a hot katori straight off the stove does not leave a ring you look at for the next 20 years. Round tops are worth thinking about if your drawing room is on the smaller side, because there is no corner seat to argue over and you can pull in 1 more chair when you need to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe coffee tables and the nesting sets solve a different problem, which is floor space, since the small one slides back under when you want the room clear. Console tables and study desks are in this section too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBecause each piece is cut and polished by hand the grain runs differently on every top, so the one that arrives will not match the photograph exactly and sizes can vary slightly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hand-carved-octagonal-table","title":"Hand-Carved Octagonal Table","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a low table with a marble top, the kind that sits in the middle of the baithak or out on the verandah with everyone gathered round it. The top is 1 piece of white marble with soft grey veins running through it, cut into 8 sides and polished until it feels cool under the hand even in May. Below it sits a 6-sided wooden frame, and on each side a flower has been crafted into the panel, a white phool with an orange and yellow centre and green leaves on deep blue, so there are 6 phool going all the way round. Between them the wood has been turned into thin spindles, like the railing of an old haveli balcony, and the marble reaches out past the frame on every side, which leaves room for a cup or a plate at the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTables of this style come from the Rajasthani habit of sitting low and close, in the chowk of a haveli where the whole family would collect in the evening with chai and a plate of namkeen in the middle. The blue and white of the flower work belongs to the same family of colours people know from Jaipur's blue pottery, so it feels at home in a house that already has some brass, some jaali or some block print in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe table stands on 4 carved legs that curve outward at the foot, and there is nothing in the centre, so knees and feet go under it without hitting a post. The small wooden drops hanging at the corners are only decoration, not legs. The frame has been given a dark polish that lets the grain show, and the wood will not swell if water sits on it for a while, pani mein phoolti nahi, which matters on a table that sees chai, lassi and a jug of water every day. It is a heavy piece, and once it has been placed, it stays where you put it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade in our Jodhpur workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49710564770020,"sku":"10","price":19000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/Hand-Carved_Octagonal_Table.webp?v=1790248026"},{"product_id":"teak-oval-teapoy-with-cane-side-panels","title":"Teak Oval Teapoy with Cane Side Panels","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn the old days the teapoy was a simple thing, just 4 ordinary legs and a glass on top. Today our Gen-Z kids, the young ones, the youth, are changing it into shapes like the one you see here. A teapoy is not just a piece of art. It has been turned into a big system, in front of the customers and in front of the manufacturers too. Truly speaking, the ones giving us so many variety variety models are today's Gen-Z. When they come with their parents and show us different models, the parents themselves get surprised, do our children really have such a good model selection? Our youth, we have to mention them specially, for bringing so many models to us like this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHumare bachchon ka itna achha model selection hai kya!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat It Is Made Of\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe top is an oval piece of \u003cstrong\u003eteak\u003c\/strong\u003e, and under it there is a second oval piece of teak sitting on the floor as the base, so \u003cstrong\u003ethe table has no legs at all\u003c\/strong\u003e. On both sides there is a teak frame shaped round in an oval loop, and inside each loop there is \u003cstrong\u003ecane\u003c\/strong\u003e, the same open weave cane with the small holes that you see on old chairs, stretched tight inside the wood. The top sits between these 2 loops, and the space under the top works as a shelf for magazines, a book or the remote when you want the top kept clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBecause there are no legs, there is nothing for your toes to hit when you walk past it. It also fits well in a small flat, in front of a sofa or between 2 chairs, because the oval shape has no corners to bump into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eKeep water away from the cane, and if something spills on it, just dab it dry with a cloth. The teak only needs a wipe with a dry cloth to keep the dust off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49710637514980,"sku":null,"price":4999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/TeakOvalTeapoywithCaneSidePanelsUpperView.webp?v=1790261476"},{"product_id":"teak-round-dining-table-with-carved-apron-and-pedestal-base","title":"Teak Round Dining Table with Carved Apron and Pedestal Base","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis table took our karigars longer than anything else on the floor this year and the reason is the nakkashi. Flat carving on a straight board they do with their eyes closed. Carving a running flower pattern around a curved apron so it meets itself at the back with no visible join is the slow part and then the same again on a round pillar and a shaped base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhere The Time Went\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Apron\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe band under the top is carved the full way round, leaves and flowers in deep relief, with an egg and dart edge running above it. Because the table is a circle there is no back to it, every seat faces carving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Pillar And The Base\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe pedestal is one piece, acanthus leaves rising from the bottom and turned rings above. It stands on a shaped square base with the same flower work on all 4 faces and a lion paw at each corner. The paws were the last thing finished and the first thing every visitor to the shop bends down to check.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRound Versus The Usual Long Table\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA round top on a single pedestal means no one's knee is hitting a table leg and the dal and the sabzi sit in the middle where everybody can reach without asking somebody to pass. For a family that eats together this matters more than the extra seat a long table gives you. When Sunday lunch grows, the round shape takes an odd chair from the balcony without looking wrong, a long table with 6 matched chairs and 1 plastic one always looks like what it is. The carving is meant to be seen, so if it goes in a corner half of it faces the wall and you will see it only when you move house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729375207652,"sku":null,"price":9999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/TeakRoundDiningTablewithCarvedApronandPedestalBase.webp?v=1787821169"},{"product_id":"sheesham-writing-desk-with-two-drawers-and-turned-legs","title":"Sheesham Writing Desk with Two Drawers and Turned Legs","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e3 kinds of people buy this mez from us. Students and by that I mean the ones doing 12th boards or UPSC where the padhai runs 8 to 10 hours a day and the same person sits at the same table for a year. People working from home who need a proper office table and are tired of doing it on the dining one. And journalists, who want the drawers more than the top, because that is where the notebooks and the newspaper cuttings go and no one else in the house opens them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe 2 Drawers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth sit side by side under the top, full depth, with a plain wooden pull cut from the same sheesham so there is no metal handle to tarnish. Inside, A4 files lie flat with room to spare. Between the 2 you can keep a year of notebooks, the calculator, the admit card you will otherwise lose in March and everything you do not want on the top when somebody walks past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhy It Does Not Wobble\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLook under it. The legs are turned, square where they meet the top and ring turned below and between them runs an H stretcher, 2 side rails and 1 across the middle. That stretcher is what stops a table this wide from racking when you lean on one corner, which is what a person does all day while studying, leaning, pushing back, leaning again. Cheap study tables leave it out to save wood and that is why they go loose inside a year. Ours is pegged into the legs and glued, so after 5 years of somebody's elbows it still sits square.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn The Box\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 desk, fully assembled, no fitting needed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTop approx 120 cm by 60 cm, height 76 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClearance under the drawers approx 60 cm for the knees.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolid sheesham, polished on all 4 sides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrawers run on wooden runners, no metal slides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrain darkens with time, the black streaking varies piece to piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729383465188,"sku":null,"price":7999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/SheeshamWritingDeskwithTwoDrawersandTurnedLegs.webp?v=1787821733"},{"product_id":"teak-roll-top-writing-desk-with-pigeonhole-gallery","title":"Teak Roll Top Writing Desk with Pigeonhole Gallery","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor Somebody Who Still Writes By Hand\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the desk of the old kacheri and the estate office, the one the munshi sat at with the bahi khata open and a Hero pen behind his ear and we make it now in the same shape with the same joints. It suits anybody who writes for hours and needs the last 3 days of work to stay exactly where it was left. Letters, a diary, a manuscript in longhand, the notes for a book that is taking 4 years, all of it sits in the pigeonholes at eye level where you can see it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat Is In It\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 arched pigeonholes across the gallery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 drawers in all, 6 small ones in the gallery, 1 wide one under the writing top, 3 in the pedestal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoll top runs on wooden slats and closes over the gallery and the writing surface both.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolid teak, hand cut and hand finished.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApprox 135 cm wide, 70 cm deep, 120 cm high with the gallery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnee opening on the left side only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Roll\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePull the top down and everything on the desk goes out of sight, the half written page, the pen, the 40 loose sheets. That is the point of the shape. In a house the reasons are practical. Jodhpur gets aandhi from April to June and a desk with the top down keeps the dust off a week's writing. A closed desk also keeps a 4 year old's hands off the ink and the pages, which for somebody writing something they are not ready to show is reason enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Left Side Is Open\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe legs are different on each side. The right is a full pedestal with 3 deep drawers, the left is a single cabriole leg with a stretcher running across to the pedestal. So the knee room is on the left, wide enough for a chair with arms, but if you write with your left hand and sit turned to that side, check the opening against your chair before buying.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729632174308,"sku":null,"price":11999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/TeakRollTopWritingDeskwithPigeonholeGallery.webp?v=1787826389"},{"product_id":"carved-elephant-round-side-table","title":"Carved Elephant Round Side Table","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Elephants\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery leg is cut from a single block, head at the top with the ears out and the trunk curling down and back to make the foot, tusks set in separately in a pale bone. Nothing on it is moulded or turned, the whole animal is carved by hand, which is why the 3 do not match exactly and if you look, one trunk always curls a little tighter than the other 2. That is what hand carving looks like. Because there are only 3 legs it sits flat on any floor, even the uneven mosaic of an old house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheesham, dark polish, fully hand carved.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 elephant legs, tusks in bone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInlaid centre panel in 3 wood tones, carved rope rim.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApprox 45 cm across, 45 cm high.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 table, no assembly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Top\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe centre is inlaid, small pieces of 3 different woods fitted edge to edge inside a carved rope border, so the top has more going on than the legs. It takes a lamp, a book, the phone and the specs at night and that is about the size of it. Keep wet glasses off it, water works under the inlay and lifts a piece within a month, and once one piece lifts the others follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn a lot of houses an elephant goes near the door for luck, and this is the size for that spot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729685389540,"sku":null,"price":7999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/CarvedElephantRoundSideTable.webp?v=1787827344"},{"product_id":"teak-coffee-table-with-spindle-gallery","title":"Teak Coffee Table with Spindle Gallery","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe top is flat and wide with a small lip on the edge, so the chai cups and the plate of biscuits and the laptop all fit at the same time and nothing slides off. There is no carving on it and no tile on it, which is good, because a coffee table top gets used every day and a plain top can be wiped in 1 second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUnder the top there is a gallery, which means a row of small turned pillars going all the way around and between them the tiles. The tiles are painted with a pink lotus on a yellow ground, 3 on each long side and 1 on each short side and they are set into the wood so they sit flush and do not stick out to catch a knee. \u003cstrong\u003eThis gallery is the part that makes the table look old style, the way tables in the big houses of Chettinad and Kerala have looked for 100 years, while the plain top keeps it looking modern.\u003c\/strong\u003e So it goes with old furniture and with new furniture both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe shelf underneath is the full size of the top, so it is a proper second table under the first one. Newspapers go there, the magazines, the box the TV remote lives in, the children's colouring books and because the gallery is in front of it, half of that is hidden from the sofa. \u003cstrong\u003eYou get a place to put things and the room looks tidier without you doing anything.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe legs are turned, thick at the top and thinner going down, with a round foot at the bottom and the whole table stands steady on tile floor and on carpet both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhoever comes to your home is going to bend down and look at the tiles, that much is certain and then they will ask where you got it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729721499876,"sku":null,"price":11999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/TeakCoffeeTablewithSpindleGallery.webp?v=1787827873"},{"product_id":"carved-elephant-leg-coffee-table","title":"Carved Elephant Leg Coffee Table","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe 4 Elephants\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEach leg is one elephant and the elephant is the whole leg. The head sits at the top just under the table, ears spread out to the sides, and the trunk comes down in a curve and turns at the bottom to make the foot. All 4 face outward, so from any side of the room an elephant is looking back at you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe carving is done with a chisel and a mallet, the same way it was done before there were machines for it and the men doing it in our workshop learnt it from their fathers.\u003c\/strong\u003e Because of that, if you look closely the ears on one are wider than on the next, because a chisel does not repeat itself the way a machine does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Top\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe top is in 2 parts, 2 flat panels of plain wood set inside a frame and the frame is carved all the way round with a running flower pattern and under the edge there is a row of small cut teeth. \u003cstrong\u003eSo you get a plain surface in the middle for the tea and the plates and carving around the outside for the look and the 2 do not get in each other's way.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is coffee table height, made to sit in front of a sofa and there is a round side table on 3 elephant legs in the same carving if you want the pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn most homes the children find the tusks first and after that it is the guests, who lean over from the sofa to count how many elephants there are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729721827556,"sku":null,"price":9999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/CarvedElephantLegCoffeeTable.webp?v=1787828069"},{"product_id":"showcase-cabinet-with-bun-feet","title":"Showcase Cabinet with Bun Feet","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat Goes Inside?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAnything you want people to see but do not want to dust every week. 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On carpet the cabinet sinks in and stops moving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49739498225892,"sku":null,"price":7999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/ShowcaseCabinetwithBunFeet.webp?v=1787997232"},{"product_id":"bleached-oak-gateleg-dining-table-oval-drop-leaf","title":"Bleached Oak Gateleg Dining Table, Oval Drop Leaf","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis table is very useful for a small flat, because on most days it stays folded against the wall and when the family comes over it opens into a full oval dining table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBleached wood with a pale, washed finish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 drop leaves that hang down at the sides when not in use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOval top once both leaves are up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTurned legs on stretchers, with gate legs that swing out to hold the leaves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShaped apron at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade by hand in our Jodhpur workshop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFolded Against The Wall\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWith both leaves down the table is narrow, close to the width of a console and it can stand against the wall of the drawing room or the kitchen without anyone bumping into it. A fruit bowl and the newspaper can sit on the top all week. 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