This design recalls the bed seen in Madame Recamier, the famed work by Jacques-Louis David, the French Neoclassical artist appointed as Napoleon’s official painter. The eye caresses its sleigh-shaped headboard, upholstered in glowing coal-black leather outlined in dusky nail trim. The dramatic frame–complete with concave side rails, low spool footposts and carved rosettes–gleams with a textured and burnished gold leaf finish that has a gracefully aged patina. This bed is the glory of art and passion combined.
