Art Deco Dressing Table

The best thing about it is that the daily things stay outside. The perfume, the powder, the comb, the box with the bindis, all of that goes on the open shelves on the round side, so in the morning you are not opening a drawer for every small thing, you just pick up and go. The drawers are for the rest, the creams you use at night, the extra hair clips, the things you do not want lying around.

The aaina is long and it has no frame, only 2 wooden sticks holding it and because of that it looks bigger and the whole table looks lighter. You can see up to the waist standing and up to the shoulders sitting. For doing your hair or checking the saree pleats it is enough, you do not need a second mirror.

One thing people ask us is whether the round corner is only for looks and the answer is that in a small bedroom the dressing table is always at the spot where you turn and a square corner there hits the hip or a child's head. The round corner means no one in the house gets hurt on it.

Your mother will know this style from her own house and she will tell you the whole story of what happened to theirs.