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Four-poster bed Ornate Elizabethan four-poster bed Four-poster bed (lit à colonnes), 19th century, château de Compiègne, France. A four-poster bed or tester bed [1] is a bed with four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, or upper (usually rectangular) panel. This tester or panel will often have rails to allow curtains ...
[2] [1] The bed was dismantled and for a while lay in the hotel car park before being collected by the auctioneers. It was described in the auction catalogue as "profusely carved Victorian four poster bed with armorial shields". [2] Ian Coulson, an antique bed restorer from Humshaugh, bought the bed at the on-line auction for £2,200. [2] [3]
[9] [24] These royal suites were decorated in the Colonial style, with furniture, wallpaper, four-poster beds, lights, and other furnishings. [21] One of the suites, the Presidential Suite, had four bedrooms, a kitchen, formal living and dining areas, and a wrap-around terrace. [37] [72] This was the only unit in the hotel with a terrace. [37]
The suite features 6-metre-high (20 ft) ceilings, [47] great chandeliers and windows overlooking the Place Vendôme, a massive long gold framed Baroque mirror between the windows, red and gold upholstery and a four-poster bed said to be identical to that in Marie Antoinette's bedroom in the Palace of Versailles. [46]
The hotel's 45 rooms were designed with varied influences; Asian, Moroccan and Colonial styles are conspicuous. [4] The single rooms contain French double beds with blacks and whites in an eclectic style. [5] The double rooms are styled as Indenture or Provençal design, including antique swan beds.
The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, England.Built by Hertfordshire carpenter Jonas Fosbrooke about 1590, the bed measures 3.38m long and 3.26m wide (ten by eleven feet) [2] and can "reputedly... accommodate at least four couples". [3]