Essex

A tall plain headboard with a single sweeping stitch line, on splayed metallic legs. The Essex, doing modern without trying.

The headboard is full-width and tall, with a softly arched top edge. The face is plain except for one detail, a single curved stitch line that sweeps across the lower section of the panel like a smile, dividing the headboard into a generous upper plain area and a small sculpted shelf below. It's a quiet, confident touch, the kind you only notice the second time you walk into the room.

The legs are the other defining feature. Slim and metallic, splayed outward at an angle rather than sitting straight down, they lift the bed visually and give it a clear mid-century modern lean. Combined with the plain headboard and the single curved seam, the whole bed reads as deliberately contemporary in a way nothing else in our range does.

This is the bed for the modernist bedroom. Mid-century interiors, exposed beam lofts, contemporary new builds, anywhere the room wants something cleaner than a heritage upholstered shape but more upholstered than a flat platform bed.

Choose your base. Non storage on splayed metallic legs, manual ottoman for everyday lift-up storage, electric ottoman for touch-of-a-button access, or full adjustable platform. On ottoman and adjustable bases, the legs are removed and the base sits flush to the floor for maximum storage.

Crafted not assembled. Handmade to order in our British workshop by the same craftspeople who have supplied Britain's leading bed retailers for over two decades. Solid FSC beech frame. Slats 3cm apart, rated for our heaviest natural-fill mattresses. SATRA-certified ottoman lift tested to 250kg, OKIN motors on the powered variant. 15 year frame guarantee. Delivered and installed by our own team, not a courier.

Made your way. Choose from over 100 fabrics across velvets, linens, bouclés and weaves. Available from Double to Emperor, including European King.

Want to see it first? Order swatches before you commit, 50p each. The image shows a deep mustard velvet, but the same shape carries cool greys, deep teals, espresso, oatmeal linen.

Essex. Tall plain headboard, sweeping stitch, splayed metallic legs, made in Britain.

The mattress rests directly on top of the upholstered side rails rather than dropping inside the frame. The rails sit hidden, so the bed reads as one clean unbroken upholstered line.

Gee Golisz, Founder