This Queen Anne fourposter bed is a design which takes 12 weeks to hand carve from Swietenia Mahogany this is not a bed you would want to beeswax a few times each year!
As with all our four poster beds and furniture traditional cabinet chassis construction incorporating mortise tenon, butterfly, mitre joints and floating panels used in addition to the intricate carved detail and beautiful tapered barley twist posts. All of this work is done using hand tools there are no lathes or CNC routers.
Bear in mind if you took for example a cardboard box and removed every side including the bottom its going to be unstable this is why historically many four poster beds were fixed to the wall behind the headboard, this is why the Heirloom Beds fourposters are engineered differently.
The main strength of the bed and the most important area is the lower area the stronger you make this the better. This is why the posts are fixed to the base and footboard and then separated just below the barley twists rather than single length posts that attach to the side of the footboard.
Typically a round wood dowel is used to re-connect the posts this how ever permits rotational movement and often has play in the contact.
This is why Heirloom Beds have incorporated narrow thread 12 mm steel bolts with to the posts as opposed to round wood dowels more commonly used.
In our Queen Anne four poster and sleigh beds we use twin male/female brackets at each corner with a custom made bolt retained within the bed avoiding it going through the footboard covered by a brass plate.
Finials at the top are removable for those with close ceiling heights or preference in the final look of your bed.
The Queen Anne is a reproduction design and therefore offered by many, some cost more some less but we are confident that the Heirloom Bed Queen Anne offers the best value currently available on the web.
Have a look at our Queen Anne roof upholstered with damask embroidered silk it’s unique to Heirloom Beds and gives a totally different look and sleep experience.
