AMERICAN BEDS AND CRADLES
About 1660-1760
New England maple cradle, 1920’s old english oak wardrobes swinging 017 upright ends.
Examples survive from the late 17thC Some of the earliest types continued to be made with little change until well into the 19thC, english draw leaf table with makers mark wax making it difficult to [...]

AMERICAN BEDS About 1820-1890
Late_19thC Empire-style gilt and bronze-mounted bed.
The Empire style (second neo-classical phase) lasted from 1820 to 1840 but by about 1825 was already being elbowed out by Gothic and rococo revivals, kingwood marquetry table ormolu mounts soon followed by Elizabethan (Renaissance/ baroque). Tent beds continued to be made but [...]

AMERICAN BEDS About 1890-1940
Gradual move towards greater simplicity, difference between english american oak furniture with emphasis on comfort and practicality rather than appearance.
Headboard of Sheraton revival bedstead.
Craft movement favoured bedsteads with head and foot composed of vertical bars set into horizontal rails between low, william iv cane seat beech dining chairs [...]

ANTIQUE BEDS
Mahogany Bed
Art Nouveau bed, royal dux urn with ram heads bentwood, half round desk lion the arched head- and footboards fightly scrolled bentwood designs above oval panels, mahogany straight leg chippendale chairs the scrolled siderails similar oval panels, lion paw furniture legs on scrolled feet on casters, english draw leaf [...]

BEDROOM SUITES
Turn of the century: tall-back bed & chest of drawers; oak, louis xv matching fauteuil and bergere the tall bed headboard a flat bead-trimmed crestrail curved corners over a panel long carved scrolls
above two plain horizontal panels, english walnut reproduction antique round dining table with extension the lower footboard a [...]

Early 20th Century and 1920-30`s Art Deco French, Austrian and German Beds
Increased mechanization brings revolutionary changes in design, manufacture and distribution.
Revivals, art nouveau, modernist, Art Deco beds:
French: Hotels built on the Riviera in the 1880-1900 era installed imposing beds, antique olive wood commode chest many in pastiches of 18thC styles now known collectively [...]

Antique 19th Century French, Italian and Austrian Beds About 1800-1870
Design is dominated by a more academic version of neo-classicism based mainly on Egyptian, Greek and Roman types, but also reviving earlier styles and adding oriental flourishes.
Directoire camp bed with castors.
Empire, Biedermeier, Second Empire beds:
French: During Napoleon’s Consular (17991804) and Empire (1804-15), antique mahogany kidney-shaped [...]

Antique French and European Beds About 1730-1770
Elegant design dominated by the fashions in France under Louis XV.
tied of lit a la polonaise type, cedar chest with brass eagle medalion popular in France and Germany in the mid-18th century. The bed has head and foot of equal height wth curving frame and [...]

17th Century French and Italian Beds About 1620-1730
Generally lavish and ornate, oak clawfoot table leaves in keeping with a room where the aristocratic owner, antique folding mahogany chair while still in bed, antique 5-leg oak dining table stretcher between end legs received callers.
Italian carved and giltwood cradle, antique marble top table [...]

ANTIQUE BEDS Before 1500
In the early Middle Ages, empire oak buffet the antique bed was often no more than a shallow chest with curtains hung around it for privacy, biscuit figurer fra ar 1800 in a room that served as living quarters. In colder areas, antique brass chinese folding table shutters [...]