Ever more popular this style long associated with the reign of King Louis Philippe if you like this design have a look at our ? Cambrian, and Tamara sleigh bed.
Our Heirloom Sleigh Bed is traditionally crafted, hand carved from non indigenous plantation Swietenia mahogany 'Brazilian mahogany' incorporating hand carved scrolls, curved sides, floating panels in the foot and headboard there are no veneers, softwood ply or MDF materials anywhere in the bed you may be used to seeing these materials on the high street but not here.
This reproduction design (1 of only 2 in our range) is produced to varying degrees of quality and finish, no corners are cut in producing the Heirloom Lits en Bateaux. The Heirloom french sleigh bed has the same 20 step finish taking 13 days to complete as you will find on all of our mahogany and walnut finished furniture.
This means the depth of grain and character of our beds and furniture is showcased (its what finishers call a 'picture') and drawn forward delivering huge ?Wow? factor and unrivalled protection of your investment for decades to come.
Waxed furniture is simply stained and polished essentially the more sheen or 'doff' you want the more wax you add and more you buff with a lambswool pad you can spend a couple of days doing it or 4 weeks but it will never seal the timber will not give you a finishers 'picture' it will also will require waxing and polishing off (the hard part) 3 times a year.
Pictured is evidence of the quality of manufacture and timber used in our beds. This is a side profile of a side rail from our French Sleigh Bed you can see four important features ?
- Our finish, certainly not beeswax.
- 1 1/4 inch thick solid timber in just one part of the rail.
- Depth of colour in the timber itself revealing mature timber
- Use of the technique opposing grain directions minimising movement.
