White On White With White

April 30, 2009 in Color,The bedroom with 2 Comments

four poster bed

In 1904 Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned by Catherine Cranston and her husband to remodel and furnish their house at Hous’hill, Glasgow. Their guest bedroom was white — so white, in fact, that all of the furniture save two chairs was painted white! I’m thinking about white bedrooms today because of a question a reader sent in (that I shall answer tomorrow… or Monday) and came across the above image while researching the answer. The sparse and squared off but nonetheless eautiful four-poster bed was built from kauri pine and then painted white, of course. I like its simplicity, which is offset just enough with stylized decorative details like the designs on the bed spread and the canopy.

Did I mention I’ve always wanted a four-poster bed?

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2 Responses to “White On White With White”

  1. class factotum May 6, 2009 at 6:56 am #

    Remember Pscy 101 and the rumors that BF Skinner (??) had reared his daughter in an all-white space just to see what would happen?

  2. Never teh Bride May 12, 2009 at 7:18 pm #

    Well if that wouldn’t drive a klutz like me nuts, I don’t know what would! Then again, I’d have it stained up in no time…