You could be looking at the world’s most expensive bed!
That’s the claim being made in some quarters after this exclusive bed went on sale priced at £4 million.
This luxury four poster double bed, called the Baldacchino Supreme bed, was created by British designer, Stuart Hughes, and Italian design company, Hebanon. It’s handcrafted from chestnut and ash wood, with a cherry wood canopy, and is inlaid with 107kg (236lb) of 24ct gold.
Any old bedding of course won’t do, so the bed comes complete with Italian silk and cotton drapes. The headboard can even be customised to accommodate diamonds for the ultimate in bling finish!
Only two of the Baldacchino Supreme beds, suitable for billionaires, have been made and each has taken three months to make. Amazingly, one of the beds has already been purchased by an Italian businessman. Could the other one be yours?!
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But it’s… quite ugly.
Mmm, it just goes to show that the most expensive home products are not always necessarily the prettiest!
You know I got here by Googling “‘Baldacchino bed’ +ugly”, don’t you? Try it yourself and see. Just add some poofy sheperdess lamps tarted up with tons of ceramic “lace” and brass poles sticking up out of the backs to hold up the plastic-wrapped lampshades and you’ll have a Late 50’s-Early ’70’s French Provincial nightmare fit for a king. Or the Late Divine as Francine Fishpaw. Cherry? Ash? Chestnut? Bull-cacca? It could be anything from hypertufa to uranium mine tailings under all that off-white paint, for all you know. Why would anyone with even 2 brain cells to rub together hide decent fruitwood and hardwood under paint? I also refuse to believe there’s 200+ lbs. of gold leaf. Hell, my full brass bed frame doesn’t weigh that much; do the math (or don’t, if you’re trying to separate some fools from their money. Speaking of which, the ElectricLlamaLand bordello in Nevada’s on hold on line 3 for you. They want to make an offer on bed no. 2.)
You know April Fool’s is another 50 days away, right?
[…] reported by Sleep Savvy Magazine in their recent May/June 2011 edition, the price tag on a bed by British designer Stuart Hughes is $6.4 […]