There’s no symbol of luxury more universal than the four-poster bed. In this lookbook, we select eight bedrooms elevated by their presence.
Beds with vertical columns in each corner supporting an upper panel date back to the medieval period.
Originally built with wraparound curtains to keep out the cold and provide privacy, they have historically been associated with highly ornate designs for nobility.
Today the four-poster bed remains an unmistakable statement piece of furniture, and the list below sees the concept applied to a variety of bedroom settings, from the traditional to the contemporary.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive.
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