The Children’s Furniture Company, run by husband and wife team, Charles & Sarah Codrington, has been designing and making ‘only’ children’s furniture for over nine years, and now has the most fabulous collection of seven exclusive ranges.

Their tag line ‘Better Children’s Furniture’ comes to life in unique, sturdy pieces made from oak, ash and beech, or finished in your choice of up to 12 different colours or in soft white.

Each range has at least eight or nine matching items, including bunks, high beds, cabin beds, desks, bookcases and much more.

Their furniture graces the bedrooms of children all around the country and many come back to add a desk or a bookcase, as they grow.

Featured here is the gorgeous Victoria 4-poster Bed:

• What little girl wouldn’t adore this magnificent Victoria 4-Poster - a magical place to play and chat with your friends?
• With elegantly sculpted legs and posts, plus delicate pink chamfered detailing, this bed comes in a 3ft. width to fit in any bedroom.
• Available in soft white, the posts can be removed if ever necessary.
  (Curtains not included). Size: L 204cm x H 210cm x W 102cm. Priced at £495.(Sale price £450.)
  The Summer sale runs until the end of July.

This Autumn the company will be introducing even more new pieces to their collections.

To view the fabulous children’s furniture collections, visit the Children’s Furniture Company website.
Tel:   (020) 737 7303.

Luxury bedroom specialists And So To Bed have launched their new website.

Bright, easy to navigate and packed with essential information, it’s the ultimate user-friendly guide to their exclusive collections of beds, furniture, mattresses, linens and accessories.

Designed as a complete online showroom experience, each product can now be viewed in perfect detail.

The site features dimensions, prices, helpful links and a unique video of inspiring lifestyle images.

This range of products and special features makes And So To Bed’s website, a brilliant way to put together a total bedroom look including;

• Bedlinen.
• Accessories
• Bedroom furniture.
• Beds.
• Mattresses and Divans.
• Duvets and Pillows.

Featured here is the Juliet Bedsead:

• And So To Bed’s beautiful Juliet bedstead, inspired by the elegant rococo styles of 18th Century France, has been given a romantic look in a gilded finish.
• The period detailing and intricate carving of the caned head and footboards, is hand gilded for a bed so splendid, it is guaranteed to be the centre of attention in any bedroom.
• The Juliet is also available in other finishes, including hand painted and upholstered in gold finish.

And So To Bed has twenty-four showrooms across England, Scotland and N Ireland.

To view the inspirational ranges please visit And So To Bed’s website.

Tel: (0808) 144 4343 for brochure and branch details.

Commissioned by boutique hotels and private clients all over the world, furniture makers Bevan & Hely-Hutchinson are known both for recreating important period pieces and for their own ‘classic modern’ designs.

Elegant four poster beds by Bevan & Hely-Hutchinson are typical of their work … based on historic pieces, but given a contemporary twist.

Built using traditional materials and craftsmanship, these are timeless designs for both period and modern settings.

Each B&HH bed is hand made to order, in the size, materials and finishes chosen by the client. Prices for a four poster bed start from £3500.

The bed shown here was one of several commissioned by the Soho House Group for Babington House and Dean Street Townhouse:

• Early 19th c style four poster with silk canopy, paintwork finished in patinated 19thc off-white.

Offering an extraordinary pool of design and traditional craft skills and experience, Bevan & Hely-Hutchinson is dedicated to the design and production of luxury furniture, decorative items, interiors and architectural finishes.

Their client list includes leading interior designers and private clients, with input into projects as varied as Babington House, Castle Howard, the Savoy Theatre, the Sultan of Oman’s yacht and Windsor Castle.

Showroom at 44 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3LQ.

Visit the Bevan & Hely-Hutchinson website to view more stylish four posters.

Tel: (020) 7731 6699

Add a touch of Oriental styling to your home and indulge in the elegance of the Orient with Supatra’s striking Winged Coffer Sideboard.

Its unique shape and design symbolizes style from around the Orient and its unusual winged edges, add a contemporary styling to this piece.

Made from reclaimed elm wood, this practical sideboard can be used as a traditional buffet, or as a media storage unit for your TV and Hi-Fi equipment.

With a choice of two different finishes, either a black lacquer or a high gloss clear lacquer, which will give it a luxurious appearance.

Featured here is the Dark Elm Winged Coffer Sideboard.
An extremely functional piece of furniture with 3 lockable top drawers and 4 CD sized drawers; it also has a hard wearing inlaid rattan woven top, central round lock cover and a removable central post, which allows full access whether used for TV equipment or to store crockery.

Dimensions: W163 x D45 x H88 cm. Priced at: £850.00.

Supatra specialises in classic and contemporary Oriental furniture, Chinese Furniture, Conservatory Furniture and Japanese Furniture.

Visit the Supatra website to view the ranges, or their 2500sqft showroom located in Windsor, Berkshire.

Tel: (01753) 858 885

Moore & Bradfield based in Hungerford in Berkshire, create timeless interiors for English Homes. By researching period detail and colour and the use of an eclectic mix of styles, they create rooms that are enduring, functional and elegant.

Blending the realities of lifestyle with decorative aspirations and weaving them into the fabric of a house to create unique homes, is the challenge that Moore & Bradfield meet with every project.

The company aims to make all the living spaces within the home work with each other for easy, comfortable living, from a professional couple combining working from home, with a passion for entertaining; to the archetypal family, where the need is for a family kitchen and space to hose down the children and dogs after a walk on the Downs.

Featured here is the Colonial Style Bedroom. French oak four post bed, with detached canopy and shaker chest of drawers. MB-CB01.
Price: Beds from £10,000

Visit the Moore & Bradfield website, to view the many stunning pictures of completed bespoke projects, in kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, eclectic and freestanding furniture.

Tel: (01488) 684240

At their Norfolk workshops, drawing on designs mainly from the 17th & 18th centuries, Bylaw Furniture Makers construct solid oak and fruitwood furniture, traditional wall panelling and staircases, employing time-honoured methods and skills.

Everything from the solid timber -hand planed oak and fruitwood, the skilfully hand cut dovetails, painstaking finishing and waxing, right through to the fitting of locally cast period brassware, goes towards creating an uncompromising finished product.

The detail in their traditional handmade furniture and four-poster beds truly does make the difference!

Bylaw enjoys a well-deserved reputation as being amongst the finest of traditional handmade furniture makers in the UK. They are particularly famous for four-poster beds:

• Featured here is the stunning Millennium Bed. The Millennium bed incorporates the best of English Renaissance fashion; the enriched arch panels depicting a plant theme, the formal strap work arabesques carved onto the frieze and the carved male (atlantes) and female (caryatids) figures seeming to support the vast decorative tester. W: 60″ x L: 78″ the bed stands 86″ high. Ref.04MMbedcut.

• Priced at: £17,250.

To view the gorgeous furniture collection please visit the Bylaw website.

The French Furniture Company offers a vast array of beautiful, unique and distinctive products, from hand made French Shabby Chic furniture, superb Venetian pieces, through to the most delicately fashioned objet d’art; they also specialise in ornate mirrors, in gold, silver, white, black and Venetian.

The are now offering a stunning new range of Design Classics furniture, which are all handcrafted in Mahogany and available in Silver or Gold Leaf; their ‘Classic’ Range will form part of their Winter Collection.

“Elegant and distinctive pieces today, style to last a lifetime:”

Many of the pieces are limited editions and may well become the antiques of tomorrow.

Featured in our picture is the intricately carved French Dressing table in Gold, with exquisite detail and so much more than an accent!
Size: 90cm x 35cm x 120cm 
Priced at:  £625.00.

You’ll be sure to say “Oh La La!” when you view this new collection at:

Web: www.thefrenchfurniturecompany.co.uk

And So To Bed’s Georgian Four Poster is a favourite in period properties due to its classical proportions, however the company has given this traditional beauty a contemporary twist:

The mahogany Georgian Four Poster can now be hand painted to order, offering dramatically different looks, available in eight standard colours from ‘statement’ black or silver through red, blue and green to more ethereal soft white, cream or grey.

A perfect ingredient for today’s eclectic look, this imposing bed will always make a classic centrepiece.

Shown in our picture:

                  The Georgian 5’four poster painted in soft white: £3,295.
                  Ormolu chest of drawers hand-painted in turquoise: £1,125.

• On the bed:
          Palazzo duvet: from £179.
          Palazzo pillowcases: from £29.95.
          Palazzo sheets: from £59.

                 Aida quilted bedspread in dupion silk shown in ‘lagoon’: from £395.
                 Aida neckroll in dupion silk shown in ‘fuchsia’ and ‘cascade’: £35.

Web: http://www.andsotobed.co.uk 

Tel: (0808) 144 4343

James Adam is well known for the manufacture of gorgeous bedroom furniture in contemporary styles as well as elegant historical designs from masters of the past.

The Jacobean 4 piece room set pictured here is a continuation of the proud heritage of English furniture and presents an enchanting investment in our long and glorious history.

The same construction skills as employed for centuries; the use of solid wood in every detailed joint and every carved door, continues the tradition of high quality and integrity.

The Jacobean range offers a wide choice apart from the stunning four poster bed, including, bedside cabinets, dressing table, chests of drawers and single or triple mirrors.

Nearly all of the four-poster beds are available as simple headboards, bedsteads, or as half testers and all of the bed frames and four posters are available without a footboard.

Priced at:  £12,540 up to 150 x 200cm
                £13,160 up to 180 x 200cm

Web: www.jamesadam.com
Tel: (01394) 384471

It’s hard to beat the traditional elegance and romance of a four poster bed, and this superb example from Chalon would make a stunning centrepiece for any bedroom.

The authentic Georgian design fits in perfectly with the rest of Chalon’s bedroom furniture collection which draws inspiration from 18th Century designs.

This beautiful four poster bed is of traditional slatted construction with solid wood panelled head and footboards - and is available in a wide range of sizes and your choice of approximately 60 paint and 4 wood finishes.

The Chalon four poster bed is priced from £4,795 (excluding mattress).

web: http://www.chalon.com
tel: (01485) 254 600