{"product_id":"set-of-3-carved-nesting-tables","title":"Set Of 3 Carved Nesting Tables","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are 3 tables here, and they tuck under each other the way a set of steel patilas sits one inside the other in the kitchen cupboard, so on a normal day you only see the big one standing next to the sofa. When guests turn up, the other 2 come sliding out, and the tea tray, the namkeen plate and the mithai box all get a place of their own, and nobody has to run and fetch a stool. Once everyone has gone home, they go back under in a minute and the room is yours again. We sell them only as a set of 3, never one by one, because a nest with a table missing is just an odd little table standing about with nothing to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy The Sides Carry Flowers And Not Grapes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we first started making these, our karigar was carving bunches of grapes on the sides. The grapes came out well, but we told him to stop, because grapes belong to the dining room and the kitchen, and a table carrying them never looks at home anywhere else in the house. So we moved to flowers instead, because a flower suits every room and it never goes out of season. Every table in the set has a flower carved on both sides and one more in the centre of the front, laid out the way the old Indian carvers used to do it. This is what we mean when we say FOIS Home makes things with love, it is in the small decisions like this one that nobody even asked us to make. The legs are cabriole legs, the curved kind that swell out at the knee and then pull back in at the ankle, and finish in a carved scroll foot. The name comes from an old French word for a goat's leap, because the shape copies the back leg of a goat in the middle of a jump. Nesting tables go back to England around 1800, when a designer called Thomas Sheraton drew a nest of 4 and called it a quartetto, and we have stopped at 3, because a fourth one would come out too small to even hold a cup of chai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeeping The Dark Polish Shining\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe polish is shaded dark, it goes almost black along the edges and around the carving, and then it opens out into a honey colour in the middle of each top. The wood underneath is premium quality and it does not swell up with water, so if a glass tips over on it, you just wipe it with a cloth and the top stays the way it was. For the shine, the old desi way still beats anything you buy in a bottle. You may put a few drops of sarson ka tel on a folded daily newspaper and rub it over the tops and down the legs, once a week if you enjoy that sort of thing or once a month if you do not, and the tables will shine like glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foishome","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50534787973348,"sku":null,"price":11000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/6732\/8996\/files\/Set_Of_3_Carved_Nesting_Tables.webp?v=1790329897","url":"https:\/\/foishome.com\/products\/set-of-3-carved-nesting-tables","provider":"Foishome","version":"1.0","type":"link"}