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The Statue of Liberty Torch

So what could iron beds and the Statue of Liberty have in common? Well …..take a look at the casting that I had on the corners of one I had. I’ve actually had numerous metal beds with variations of this casting. Recognize it???? It’s a “torch” . The Statue of Liberty  is a colossal neoclassical…

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Serpentine Style Beds

Few  castings that I’ve seen over the years have been as distinctive and detailed as the one in this photo. As far as iron beds go, this one was not really spectacular. But I’d say it was easily in the top third of the best ones I’ve had . The thing that set this bed…

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Sometimes Simple Is Better with Iron Beds

Take a look at this  bed. Is it a bed you’d stop and look at if it was disassembled in an antique store? Probably not. But after seeing how attractive a simple one , like this can be…….once assembled and dressed properly, it may give rise to a whole new set of design possibilities. The setting…

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Iron Bed Faces Castings That Is

Many people think iron beds are simply that……. iron tubing that is sometimes scrolled or curved to give a pleasant design to it. What most people don’t know is how intricate the “castings’ on an iron bed can be. True most iron beds don’t have the detailed castings in this photo. But all iron beds…

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Iron Hearts for Iron Beds

As I’ve mentioned in the past……most of my patrons I have for my iron beds are women.  That was also the case back in the 1800’s. Society was much more chauvinistic back then and beds and the selection of them for the house was not something most men involved themselves in. So selection was left…

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Twin Daybed Conversion

Here’s a sweet little twin size iron beds, I’d originally sold the parents of a young girl over 10 years ago. Just recently it was returned to me and I was asked to convert it to a daybed for the, now grown up, little girl that had grown up in it. She now is using…

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The Masculine Canopy Bed

The thought around canopy iron beds is that they are feminine and only for little girls rooms. This couldn’t be farther from reality. Here is an bed I did for a physical trainer, who was about as masculine as they come. He specifically wanted a 2″ diameter  bed that we could convert to king and…

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Deco Panel Beds

Although the “art panel” iron beds that were being made back in the early 1800’s, certainly not the Deco period of the 1920’s and 30’s, definitely had a Deco feel to them. Take a look at this photo of a bed that was made in 1820. You would think with these more modern lines like…

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Yellow Rose of Texas Bed

Here is an Art Panel bed that was found in the Pittsburgh PA area. Iron beds didn’t usually filter too far west of the Mississippi back in the 1800’s. Shipping a heavy metal bed back then was much more of an ordeal than it is today, before trains and truck’s were able to bring them…