Set Of 3 Carved Nesting Tables

These 3 tables are very handy in a drawing room, because on a normal day they sit as 1 and when guests come each one gets it's own job.

1. The biggest one stays beside the sofa with the lamp and the phone on it and that is where it lives most of the year.
2. The middle one comes out with the tea tray, so the chai and the plate of samosas sit in front of the guests and nobody has to hold a cup on their knee.
3. The smallest goes next to whoever is sitting farthest away, usually the elder who has taken the single chair in the corner and it is just the right height to put the glass of water down without bending.

Stacked Away

When the guests have gone, the middle table slides under the big one and the small one under the middle and all 3 take the floor space of 1. The stack looks like a single carved table, so nobody can tell there are 2 more hiding inside it.

Every table has the same curved legs, the kind that bend outward at the knee and come back in at the foot, with a carved leaf on each knee and a carved scroll in the middle of the front rail. The tops have a shaded polish, a honey colour in the centre going darker towards the edges and the legs are finished in a deeper brown, which makes the carving stand out against the grass in the photos and against a plain wall at home.