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...Queen Elizabeth I reportedly had 18 so-called “bodyguards of the bed” in her chamber each night....
...Furniture Estilo Upholstery, New YorkInterior designers rave about this Brooklyn‑based shop, which offers impeccable, speedy, good-value repairs of sofas and chairs....
...In the era of hyper-localisation, that’s the message being proffered by Floks, a Yorkshire-based woollen bedding brand offering duvets, pillows and mattress toppers filled with the fleeces of sheep that...
...The Nazis took everything: furniture, artwork, family members. Only the netsuke survived the war, secreted in a mattress and rescued by de Waal’s uncle Iggie, who brought them back to Japan....
...The interior is rich with portraits and antique furniture, the sala filosofia dense with books....
...The designs also incorporated the latest research on germaphobic travellers: wood floors and lacquered furniture rather than fluffy carpets and soft surfaces....
...“We only sell one mattress: the best,” Eve claims on its website....
...Mattress Firm , the largest US mattress retailer, gained after the company agreed a sale to furniture group Steinhoff International for $64 a share....
...In August, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to six federal financial regulators raising concerns about Symphony, saying the service appears to “to put companies on notice — with a wink and a nod —...
...DFS, which has 105 stores across the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, said it had a 26 per cent share of the UK’s £3bn upholstered furniture market....
...Lathom House was destroyed in the civil war, but Knowsley survived, and was renowned for its furniture....
...A reported £25,000 was spent on the bespoke horsehair mattress for the emperor-size bed....
...But what made it renowned throughout the world is the calibre of guests it attracted, from the painter Claude Monet to Frank Sinatra and from the Duc d’Orléans to Elizabeth Taylor....
...“If Confucius was alive to day he might have said he who designs the furniture has never done the housework”!. Rose is “mortified” that she wasn’t called back....
...That may be part of what attracted News Corp’s attention....
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