I’ve realized that almost every hotel bedroom I truly love has one feature in common – a fabric four-poster bed. It’s the detail that transforms a room from simply chic to utterly memorable. I think it’s the cocooning thing. For me, that’s the essence of a tailored bedroom: structure and precision balanced by softness and comfort.
Fabric four-posters are not new. Historically, they were practical in nature, designed to be placed in the center of the room – the enclosed nature of the bed keeping out the cold and noise. That evolved to half testers and canopies dressed in yards of chintz and heavy drapery.
