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Golden Bed
The Golden Bed is a bed designed by the English architect and designer William Burges in 1879 for the guest bedroom of the home that he designed for himself in Holland Park, The Tower House. It is now in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in South Kensington.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Golden Bed )〕 The bed was made by John Walden and carved by Thomas Nicholls. The painting in the central panel of the headboard was executed by Henry Holiday, and the motifs and figures on the bed painted by Fred Weekes.〔 The bed is made from polished hardwood, mahogany and pine.〔
The theme for the guest room has been variously described as 'The Earth and Her Productions'〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington )〕 and 'Vita Nova' ('New Life').〔 The Golden Bed matched the rest of the furniture designed for the guest bedroom, in keeping with the rooms decorative scheme.〔
==Design==
The Golden Bed is a large bed, measuring long, high and wide.〔 It is made from wood, gilded gold. The bed is decorated with carvings and 'fragments of illuminated manuscripts under glass and rock crystal'.〔 Two mirrors are inset into the headboard, which features a painting by Thomas Weekes of the Judgement of Paris at its centre.〔 The three gods in the 'Judgement of Paris' are wearing clothes of the 13th-century, with Mercury standing to the left of Paris, with Venus bowing to Paris on the right.〔 The painting had previously been part of a larger painted panel at Burges' rooms in Buckingham Street, where he had lived before Tower House. The sideboards of the bed are ornamented with glass covering pieces of illuminated vellum and fragments of textiles.〔 Grotesque figures, of a female and male, feature in the side brackets at the head of the bed. The bed head and foot posts are surmounted by half orbs of rock crystal.〔
The foot of the bed is inscribed with the Latin phrase 'VITA NOVA' ('New Life'), with the posts of the bed inscribed 'WILLIAM BURGES ME FIERI FECIT' ('William Burges Made Me') on the right, and 'ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLXXIX' ('In the Year of Our Lord 1879') on the left.〔
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