Designing the Roseland Bed
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Our vision for the Roseland bed was to create something so classic that it would feel familiar. We wanted to do this by being loyal to early American design but with new contributions that would be useful and original.
To create the bed, we partnered with Kenon Perry, a veteran furniture designer and maker, with a career in NYC, Atlanta, and now Bosque County, Texas. Kenon, like us, appreciated the visual paradox of many 18th and early 19th century beds: a planted, rock-solid construction contrasted with long, tapering, visually delicate legs. Like countless others before us, the stark, unadorned, lines of the Shakers were the natural starting point.
Kenon Perry in his Bosque County workshop
For inspiration, we visited the Hancock Shaker Village and scoured the Met's design archive for the different approaches to supports, headboards, and joinery.
In the end, the bed we designed has a few features that make it different to its ancestral beds as well as its contemporary peers:
“We wanted to create something that was so simple and timeless, that it would feel almost familiar.”
Uniform leg tapering - We wanted something strong yet visually light. By turning the bed legs with a simplified linear reduction in thickness, the bed has the appearance of standing on needlepoints while maintaining a strong structure. We mirrored this in the headboard posts and center support.
King-sized Roseland Platform Bed
We created a reversible headboard connection. As the facade of the bed and the true showcase of the wood's grain - designing a tight, yet screwless headboard connection was always a goal. Most headboards connect to the vertical supports with visible screw holes on the side of the headboard facing the wall. This has two consequences that we wanted to avoid: Firstly, if the face-side of the headboard gets damaged, you can't flip it around. Secondly, it avoids the small stress fractures that can occur over time in the wood around the screw holes. The Roseland headboard is two sided, so a customer can choose their preferred side and locks in place using Striplox - an Australian connector that is celebrated by high-end furniture makers for its tight, fully concealed hold - our one concession to imports!
Customer headboard and frame in progress
Hand-rubbing raw Linseed Oil
A natural, zero-VOC finish. With our commitment to finishing all of our products as naturally as possible (forgoing lacquers, stains, synthetic polymers, or veneers), we opted to hand-rub pure linseed oil as our only finish. This provides a long lasting and repairable finish to the bed - if a customer blemishes or dings the bed, they can just sand and re-apply linseed oil.
Packing for Shipment
The Roseland Bed
Solid American Cherry
Made in Bosque County, Texas
Starting at $1450
