BH | Studio Alnwick Spindle Queen Bed

Turned wood, rods shaped on the lathe into rows of beads and bobbins, is an old English craft, and turners were making bobbin-turned chairs and stools in seventeenth-century England. In America, once steam-powered lathes could turn long runs of beads cheaply from the 1840s, the spindle bed became so linked with Jenny Lind, the Swedish soprano whose 1850 American tour was a sensation, that the style still bears her name.

This bed is solid hardwood throughout. The headboard and a lower footboard are each filled with a row of turned spindles, beaded along their length, framed by rounded posts that finish in turned feet. The headboard stands a little over 39 inches, tall enough to prop pillows and sit up to read, while the footboard sits lower so the bed never feels boxed in. Wood slats run across the frame to carry a standard queen-size mattress, so no box spring is required. In Jet or Alabaster, a satin finish turns the beading into a fine line against the wall. Assembly is required.

It makes a primary bedroom feel collected rather than bought as a set. The spindles look crisp in a farmhouse bedroom with white shiplap walls, and just as good in a city apartment painted deep green. Layer it with a white quilt, a red and cream ticking stripe pillow and a wool throw folded at the foot, then add a painted chest of drawers and a brass swing-arm lamp. This listing is for the bed frame only; mattress and bedding are not included.