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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 design includes tons of additional features, including an anti-snore setting (elevates the mattress slightly to open up the nasal passages), dual massage settings (individual massages on both sides of the bed), and a zero-gravity setting (head and foot elevation).
Last year, Harrison Bardwell, the farm’s ninth-generation proprietor, was selling thousands of pounds of cucumbers at a time, transportable by pallet and forklift.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
Relief and health workers say these other methods of delivering food in Gaza, including the GHF sites and aid pallet drops from planes, are dehumanizing and inaccessible for many Palestinians, and expose them to injury or death.
On the table next to Captain Purdie’s bunk is what looks like a copper coin, a fringe of glutinous seaweed smothering it to the surface of the wood.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
Besides the standard touring equipment (avalanche beacon, shovel, probe), visitors need to carry little more than a sleeping bag and a toothbrush, since dormitory-style bunks and hearty meals are provided.
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