The Art of Sleep
Savoir Beds is well known for its innovative collaborations with designers, but its latest joint venture, with the National Gallery and Andrew Martin, is opening up a vast, untapped creative resource. Every painting within the gallery can be upholstered onto a Savoir headboard and base, from Monet’s waterlilies to a Gainsborough portrait to a Renaissance altarpiece. Pictured is a ‘Felix’ bed featuring Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora’s ‘The Combat of Love and Chastity’ (c.1475-1500), a painted wooden panel thought to illustrate a piece of poetry by Petrarch – and a rather tongue-in-cheek subject matter for a bed, given that Chastity wins…
Savoir Beds, First Floor, South Dome
