Enfilade

Yesterday’s posting at Style Court includes exceptionally good photos of the Calke State Bed. I’ve included one here, but for the much larger images, you’ll have to visit Courtney Barnes’s stimulating site:

For a long time now I’ve been contrasting grand centuries-old canopied beds with some of the more lavish beds that occasionally pop up in the pages of Elle Decor. After my recent post about Marla Mallett’s Chinese textiles, a very kind person from the National Trust shared these colorful, wonderfully detailed images of the silk-laden 18th-century Calke State Bed. . . .