A Work Of Art ..

[Elina]

I had to share. Made for the wedding night of Sir John Radclyffe & Lady Anne Asshawe, how romantic. Take a look at the detail of the bed in the gallery, just beautiful. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/elizabethan-bed-comes-back-ordsall-8227040

[janbee]

Now, THAT is a bed !! They certainly didn't get that from IKEA or Dreams !!

[Elina]

Lol Jan, seems tiny though doesn't it.

[janbee]

People seemed to sleep almost sitting up then. Also, I think most of them were little short*** es. Personally, I hate 4 posters. I think they always look so claustrophobic and dark and sinister and the occupant was just waiting to be murdered !!

[Elina]

You're funny Jan ;0) I would fit snug in that. I feel the opposite, I think they look so cosy. I'd love to try a four poster. How indulgent to buy it for young girl. This bed needs love, care & respect.

[janbee]

I've slept in 4 posters, they always freak me out. My niece has one, bought at auction at a stately home in Yorkshire. It's a gazillion years old. Oh.. if it could talk, the stories and creaks it could tell.

[Elina]

Oh really. I've yet to try one. I'm not sure I'll ever get the chance.

[janbee]

Yes you will Elina. Lots of hotels and B & B s now have 4 posters, especially in "the honeymoon suites". Who goes on "honeymoon" any more?

[Old_Geezer]

I like 4 posters, but they'd be too tall to put in a modern house. Aren't they supposed to have a curtain to keep the draughts/cold out though ?

[B00]

I can appreciate it's artwork and the history surrounding it, but I personally find it bug ugly!

Still, it obviously had the desired effect for them, they had 6 kids in it :-)

[-Talbot-]

I wonder if it still has the original mattress?

[woofgang]

I agree with B00, dark and oppressive.

[Mosaic]

I can appreciate it as a work of art but as others have said, I'd no more lie down in it than sprout wings and fly. Plus, who'd want to buy and sleep in a bed some geezer had died in?