Trends 2021: The headboard wakes up!

It is a domestic layout that has become essential in the room, probably under the leadership of shop-hotel.Logic: the headboard seduces both by its decorative and practical appearance.

In the collective unconscious, the headboard plays a special role.She returns - Excuse little - to the kings of France!Symbol of power, then in Baldaquin with its heavy drapes and pearlings, richly decorated, the bed of the sovereign is literally the seat of power, since it is from there that he holds audience.

The story of the headboard

Under the Old Regime, the headboard is therefore the object of ornament and ceremonial, but has a real practical role and comfort: we join it, since the custom is to sleep not lying but seated - theelongated position, synonymous with death, being reserved for patients ... and deceased.She could just as much prove to be a simple bulwark against the cold of the walls against which the bed was supported.

Nowadays, the headboard has kept this mind both cozy and decorative and fully participates in the room atmosphere.It declines a palette of materials to agree with all the interiors: wood, fabric, canrage, leather, metal ... These are raw or richly worked, and within the reach of all budgets.The head is coordinated, if necessary, to the facing of the bed (dressing of the box spring), or even on the wall and the curtains, even if it means calling on the talents of a upholsterer who will be able to make tailor -made products, in all dimensions:In width, wall-to-wall, in verticality, to give height to the room ...

The trend is for enveloping models

Cozy, with folded edges on both sides of the bed to form a comforting cocoon, here is the headboard 2021.Under the impetus of some designers, pragmatic by nature, it goes far beyond its status as a ceremonial furniture to access that of practical object.She then incorporates tablets as bedside, lighting, sockets, or even lockers.Deviating from the wall, it can even become a structuring element and transform into the library, storage, separate spaces or even hide a dressing room.Practical and aesthetic, beautiful and intelligent in short: a head both full and well done.