The Bed that we represented in the Second Plate of the fifth Book of the first Year was a daybed à la Turque, in wood; made to put in a little apartment. The one that we show in this plate is a Bed à la Polonaise, ALL IN IRON, to put in a very large sleeping chamber. It is five feet wide, and six feet long.
On four brackets, which raise it more than ten feet off the ground, is placed a wooden dome, surmounted by a very fluffy and very large white plume. On the four corners of this dome are placed four little white plumes.
On the four corners of the support points, where the four brackets rise, are placed four other white plumes.
The stuff which adorns the Bed, and which covers it, along with the two bolsters at the head and foot, is a pink Gros-de-Tours. This stuff composes the curtains, draperies, and dome covering.
The curtains are gathered under the dome, and are pulled up in draperies with cords and tassels which are attached to the four corners of the support points. These curtains are decorated with pink and white fringes or meshes, and white lace.
The perimeter of the done is ornamented with a double drapery, trimmed with pink and white fringe and tassels.
The stuff which decorates the front of the Bed, and which nearly touches the floor, is also trimmed with pink and white fringe, lace, and tassels.
We will not say that this Bed is very new; but we will say that its form being more beautiful, more rich, more elegant than all those others (Beds à la Turque, Preaching-pulpit Beds, Beds with four columns, etc. …) we had to paint it by preference. We will even add that it is the only type of Bed that people of taste and people of opulence choose. There is not one newer, except the Beds à la Turque, which we represented in the fifth Book of the first Year.
This Bed à la Polonaise, in iron, is drawn from the Shop of M. BOUCHÉ, Merchant Upholsterer, at the Gold Eagle, rue de la Verrerie. M. Bouché, as known for his taste as for his exact probity, has the most beautiful Furniture Shop in Paris. He makes very considerable shipments to the Provinces and to foreign Countries. There are no People to whom we have recommended him who have not praised him.
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