Product Description

The Day Bed is a historically significant piece of furniture in several South Asian regions. Known as ‘charpai’ or ‘khatiya,’ it is still a regular feature in rural homes across north India.

The Nandi Day Bed is made of wooden slats that are curved at the ends. The slats rest on a frame with rounded legs. The gently-curved ends of the slats are achieved by using a special technique to bend the wood by slotting a small piece of wood into the larger piece. This method, captured in this video, saves material and limits the amount of waste generated during production. It also lends the bed a distinctive aesthetic with contrasting grain patterns at the ends of the slats. “When technical constraints create a beautiful ornament in the end, it is always a gift from the universe," designer Klemens Grund says with a smile.

The Day Bed comes with a customised mattress and loose cushions inspired by the traditional Indian mattress known as ‘gadda’. Stuffed with organic cotton, the mattress is hand tufted using traditional methods and upholstered in a selection of handspun cotton and silk fabrics from the textile maker Zanav. “It was important to fill the mattress with a traditional and organic material. This way the whole body can feel the authenticity of the idea.”

All products of the Nandi collection come with special feet pads that have been customised as per the shape and size of each leg. They felt pads are inserted into a groove at the bottom of the leg to improve their durability and to make them less visible.

Product Specification

Standard dimensions H 13.8 / L 80.6 / W 36.5 H 35.0 / L 204.5 / W 92.5

Materials Teak (Tectona grandis)

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Product Options

We offer this product in a choice of two wood finishes: Natural Teak and Dark Stain.

For the Natural Teak finish, the wood is sanded and finished with hard wax oil to bring out the natural, golden-brown colour of the teak.

For the Dark Stain finish, a coat of water-based, teak stain is applied to give the wood a darker teak shade, followed by a coat of a sealer.

We offer two options for the upholstery fabric: a cotton/silk blend called Thasra which comes in an Ivory colour and a 100% silk fabric called Sivan which comes in a Natural colour.

Details about the upholstery fabrics:
Thasra: This cotton/silk blend is produced by our fabric collaborator Zanav Home. It is made of a very coarse, open-end cotton yarn plied with hand-spun silk yarn to compensate for the lack of strength of the cotton yarn. The silk yarn is made from mulberry silk waste which gives it a unique and uneven texture. The yarns are dyed to achieve the desired colours and woven on primitive looms whose frames are sunken in the ground. These pit looms are ideal for weaving fabrics like Thasra as the ground absorbs the tension of the heavy weaving, which is not possible with conventional looms. The process of spinning to weaving to finishing is done entirely by hand which translates into the character of the fabric. Inconsistencies in colour and texture are characteristic of this fabric.

Sivan: This 100% silk fabric is made from two types of silk yarns called Gicha and Katia. Both these yarns are produced from the silk waste of the Tussar cocoon. Intrinsic to India, Tussar cocoons, unlike mulberry silk cocoons, are not cultivated but are grown in the wild. The primary yarn that is reeled mechanically from it is called Shantung. Gicha and Katia are hand spun using the remains left after reeling Shantung. This is done without twisting the yarns, which gives them their characteristic texture and colour. These yarns can only be woven by hand on pit looms. The natural colour of the fabric is derived from the colour of the leaves the worms feed on and hence varies according to the season and the region.

Wood Finish Options - Natural Teak / Dark Stain