Contemporary Beds

Contemporary beds by America's oldest bedmaker? While we are nationally renowned for our traditional iron and brass beds, we also offer you a wide selection of innovative contemporary bed styles in wood, leather, iron and brass. As finely crafted as our more traditional beds, our attention to overall proportion, decorative detail and finishes insures unique contemporary designs and sturdy, highly functional beds. Built by hand for today's modern bedding sizes, our contemporary beds represent the high design, quality and sense of style that has made us the first choice of leading interior designers and decorators. [ read more ]
Contemporary Wood Beds
Our contemporary sleigh beds built in American CherryCherry - Deciduous tree grown in many hardwood forests in the U.S. Due to its excellent strength, color and ease of working and beautiful finishing properties, Cherry is considered a superior tight grain lumber for use in fine furniture and cabinetry.

close box or MahoganyMahogany - Mahogany is a generally straight grain wood and is usually free of voids and pockets. It has a reddish brown color which darkens over time, and displays a beautiful sheen when polished. It has excellent workability, and is very durable. These properties make it a favorable wood for boat making as well as for making furniture, musical instruments, and other durable objects.

close box are elegant yet spare in their details; the quality construction and hand applied layered finishes show off the natural wood grainGrain - Variations in color and texture made by the size and arrangements of cells and pores of a living tree and revealed when wood is cut through the trunk in an horizontal direction. Also a term used to describe cells in leather hides and amount of adjustment applied during the tanning process.

close box and emphisizing the overall shapes and fine workmanship. We have unique contemporary wood panel bedsPanel bed - A bed frame with a panel of wood or other material for the headboard and foot board. Panel beds are not flanked by vertical posts or legs at the corners.

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Contemporary Leather Beds
Our contemporary leather beds start with a clean sophisticated design, substantial frame construction and a precise use of foamHigh resilience padding - Foam of specified weight & density that responds to pressure with the same recover time over a long period of use. We use specific foam densities in different areas of construction based on providing comfort, for maintaining shape and durability with repeated use.

close box to insure comfort and a clear execution of details. We use only soft top grain select leathersTop grain leather - Leather with the outermost layers of the hide left on. Used in high quality leather goods. Often shows natural characteristics such as small scars, marks or variety of grain pattern due to cell structure.

close box in colors which will have a lasting, classic appeal. Leather bed detailing includes careful leather layout for color and texture, attention to proper stitching, hand sewing and tuftingTufting - The process of drawing a cord through a deep cushion giving high puffs of padding and small low valleys where the cord is drawn. Names are given to tufting describing the shape of the tuft such as "diamond," "biscuit," or "square." Buttons are often attached to cords to highlight the tufting design.

close box and hardwood components carefully finished to coordinate with leather elements. All of our leather beds have solid hardwood railsRail - Horizontal bar of wood or metal supporting and tying two ends of a piece of furniture together. For example, on a bed the rails tie the headboard and footboard together and help support the mattress. The horizontal crosspiece at the top of a bed may be referred to as a crest rail.

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Contemporary Iron Beds
Our modern iron beds and canopies have the same solid, hand forgedForging - The art and process of heating iron to high temperatures for working by hammering, bending or shaping while in a malleable state. Techniques of craft used by blacksmiths.

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Modern Platform Beds
Platform bedsPlatform bed - A bed that does not require a box spring. Instead of the box spring, platform beds incorporate a solid surface or slats for the mattress to rest on. Sometimes this surface extends a few inches or more beyond the dimensions of the mattress. Usually low to the floor and modern in style.

close box include classic low Japanese inspired styling or platform beds with proportioningProportion - Agreeable or harmonious relation of parts within a whole; balance or symmetry.

close box similar to a traditional bed. These platform beds have either substantial planks of hardwoods, upholstered leather or fabric headboards. These platform beds emphasize more overall height in their design and tend to set the mattress higher off the floor for convenience and comfort. None of our platform beds need a boxspring and are built to offer proper support of the mattress alone.
Contemporary Daybeds
Offered in ironIron - Iron is a lustrous, silvery soft metal. It is ductile, malleable and durable and used in its carbon-containing forms for making furniture and other goods. Forms of iron vary according to compositions and process of making. Forms include pig iron, wrought iron, cast iron, carbon steel and other alloys.

close box, brassBrass - Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc. The proportions of zinc and copper can be altered to create a range of brasses, each of which has unique properties suited to a particular environment and aesthetic use. (see "cartridge brass" in the glossary for the alloy used on our beds )

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close box have simple distinctive lines and artful execution. Beautiful enough for a living room, office or guestroom our contemporary daybeds offer a unique solution for extra sleeping space with optional trundle unitsTrundle unit - A pullout bed on casters or wheels which is stored under a trundle bed or daybed. Modern trundle units pop-up for ease of use.

close box which can store an extra mattress underneath the daybed. Offered in both traditional daybed sizes (33") or in standard twin (40"). [ collapse ]