The historic Emma Hotel in San Antonio Texas started life as the largest mid-19th century brewery in Texas. The story behind the brewery and its remarkable success, involve “mistresses and murder”, of the founder Otto Kohler and the Hotels namesake , his wife Emma. We were fortunate to have been contracted to supply two king…
The “Four Poster” iron beds were a variation of the popular “Canopy” beds of the 1800s. Interestingly, canopy beds were not made in the United States during that time, but were instead common throughout Europe. It’s unclear why the United States did not follow this design trend, but it’s possible that the design community in…
Here is a great example of using a light airy antique iron bed, in front of a window, that normally would have not been considered as an option for a bed with an assuming headboard, as would be if a wooden or upholstered one was used…..that would have blocked the light and view. Many bedrooms…
I’m constantly and pleasantly surprised, when something like this happens……..because the antique iron bed she sent me was one we had sold to someone who then used it in the Country Living Magazine photo shoot. One of the funny things about this individual iron bed was the fact that the previous owner had refinished it…