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The taupe and red plaid design of this Williams Sonoma bed and headboard shows checks can be both fun and high-end.
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Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2025
Those beds—either one king or two queens—have headboards upholstered in moss-like wool fabric by the Danish textile company Kvadrat, and are laid with ethereally fuzzy blankets by Mantas Ezcaray.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025
The frame can come with or without a headboard, and both variants are on sale right now.
—Nena Farrell, Wired News, 1 Dec. 2025
Claire was propped up against the headboard and talking on the phone.
—Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
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Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 5 Dec. 2025
Those beds—either one king or two queens—have headboards upholstered in moss-like wool fabric by the Danish textile company Kvadrat, and are laid with ethereally fuzzy blankets by Mantas Ezcaray.
—Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025
The frame can come with or without a headboard, and both variants are on sale right now.
—Nena Farrell, Wired News, 1 Dec. 2025
Claire was propped up against the headboard and talking on the phone.
—Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
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“Headboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headboard. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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headboard
noun
head·board
-ˌbō(ə)rd 
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
: a board forming the head (as of a bed)
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