apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I love the combo of ornate detail and slate gray. It would go beautifully with serenely lilac-gray walls and a spare space.

I think this bed is the only one that could make me trade in my current vintage brass one.

LOVE!

It would be over-the-top with the entire furniture set (there often *was* an entire set in that era), but as the Important Piece in a room where plainer furniture repeats the straight lines... yowza!

I think it would be cool if you funked it up a bit with some modern bedding (something very simple) and a dark painted walls - maybe a deep slate blue?

I agree with all of the above comments, and I REALLY agree with the slate grey.

Basically, you could essentially pick apart a WHOLE bunch of different graphic elements in this piece and spread them around the room in pieces that had various degrees of modernity each of whose shape harkened back to a different morsel of this piece. Kind of like the various blind men with the elephant in the old children's story.