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Recent Examples of bedsteadThe substantial rails are inspired by 20th-century iron bedsteads, but the color pop is very much a modern twist.—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2025 Calling it the Fair View, Mulrooney was meticulous in choosing the lace curtains, plush carpets, brass bedsteads and other finery that would make her new hotel the envy of the region’s other hoteliers, who housed most guests in rough dormitories.—Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 The Emerald Ridge room, for example, has original redwood-slat walls, an antique bedstead and river views, while the sunny Rhododendron boasts period wallpaper and a claw-foot tub.—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024 Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco.—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024 The only possible exit is a skylight, and the only means of reaching it is to build a tower from a bedstead and other bits of furniture.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023 In guest rooms, fires and lamplight illuminate upholstered sleigh beds or traditional turned-wood New England bedsteads.—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
The viral TikTok video shows Lukman getting ready for work inside her pod, which is housed in a warehouse-style setting where each unit appears to contain only enough space for a mattress.
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Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
Rooms also feature Hästens mattresses for a supremely restful night’s sleep.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
Nolan began a business career that included being president of the Minnesota World Trade Center and owner of Emily Wood Products, a small sawmill and pallet factory in the state’s northern tier.
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David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Farmers plowed up lead and iron shrapnel and even whole hand grenades by the pallet every harvest season.
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Michael Jerome Plunkett
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
Just a few days before, while on a UK state trip, British newspapers reported the President and first lady slept in separate beds at Windsor Castle.
The spacious cabin has a combination entertainment-dining area outfitted with two sofas, a full-size kitchen, a private bathroom, and a main bedroom that can fit a king-size mattress (there are additional sleeping areas, including an overhead bunk above the cockpit).
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
24 Sep. 2025
Once he was handcuffed, deputies placed him on the lower bunk of his cell.
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