Trends: Headboards Lend A Romantic Look to Bedrooms

Sue Doerfler, The Republic at azcentral.com shares her reactions to April High Point Market in High Point, N.C.. She writes, "...furniture makers introduced collections that featured glamorous, fully upholstered beds and statement headboards."

In the article she mentions Bernhard's new London Calling Collection with these words, "Furniture maker Bernhardt's London Calling collection perhaps made one of the boldest statements with its vintage brass Kingston four-poster bed and matching side tables."

Here's what she's writing about:



Classic English style that mixes tradition with a bit of unexpected Carnaby panache enters the American vernacular today in Bernhardt Interiors—a permanent, eclectic collection totaling some 300 pieces of high design furniture.

Among 75 new case goods and occasional pieces, wood and metal forms and surfaces are dressed out in a razzle dazzle mashup of golds—shiny 70s brasses, scumbled gold-leafed woods, satiny jewel box cabinetry. The reflective golden metals appear both serious and playful — and will offer more visual interest to the rest of a homeowner’s decor.

Some 25 new upholstery pieces are shown in classic English types of covers. There are velvets, flaxes and linens, layered patterned cut cloths, and fabrics with a soft metal glow to them. A new color palette is composed of pomegranate, teal, spruce, greige, and... gold, basic black’s shiny cousin.

“London has always been recognized as a hotbed of really great style,” says Ron Fiore, Bernhardt creative director. “From the punk culture of the 70s to the 80s and even today, London is where we like to think eclecticism originated. We’re bringing that energetic, classic English suavity into our whole-world approach at Bernhardt.”