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Four-Post Beds
Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, CAWarren Beatty lived in Veranda Suite 1001 - which has a wood four-post bed - for years (he called it his Batcave). This 750 sq ft suite, the only one on the tenth floor, has a private 2,000 sq ft terrace with spectacular views of Beverly Hills and Hollywood. Downstairs you have Wolfgang Puck's contemporary steakhouse, cut, and immediately outside the hotel is Rodeo Drive, for arguably the world's best designer shopping.Visit Property Site |   |
Room 27's bed, bought by then-owner Sir Bernard Ashley, is draped in marvellous Scalamandré fabrics as you wake up, and look up, the fabric above is pulled into a flower shape. The outside upper tester fabric shows pictures of skeet and wild game, echoed on murals painted on the white walls above the bathtub. At this serene country mansion, you have 600 acres to explore, with Arnold Palmer golf, Orbis fishing, and skiing less than an hour away. Visit Property Site | |
The Stafford, LondonCarriage House 8 in this quintessentially English hotel - hidden behind Piccadilly - has a splendid pale lavender-dressed bed, with top flounce and full-length curtains. The bed and all its bits are English: linens are Peter Reed, as used by The Queen. Jane Goff's interior design includes traditional ceiling beams, historic English wall prints and a silver tantalus holds spirits decanters. To continue the anglophilia, toiletries are Floris, again Her Majesty's choice. Visit Property Site | |
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The Presidential Suite, 921, of this central-city hotel has a bed on a raised platform, with four blue twisted posts at the corners. Your suite is handy for the hotel's integral working Orthodox chapel (room 932). The Presidential Suite's balcony overlooks the Bolshoi and the Kremlin, and you are less than ten minutes' walk from the amazing Tretyakovsky Proezd pedestrian street, with the world's top fashion brands. Visit Property Site | |
The two identical Royal Suites - 2501 and 2505 - of this iconic hotel both include four-poster beds that revolve to reveal a mirrored wall. Both also have several reception rooms and dining tables for 12. You have arrived at the hotel either by helicopter, from the airport direct to the Burj's own 28th floor cantilevered landing pad, or by Rolls-Royce or BMW limos, which come complete with in-car music menus. Visit Property Site | |
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Wake up in 202 - an expansive suite above the main entrance - and you are cocooned in Pourthault linens in a bed with carved dark wood fluted columns, with mirrors set into the wood headboard and swathes over (you are so high off the ground a set of steps is provided). Turn to your left for a photo of King George V and Queen Mary taking part in an Indian procession. You are surrounded by Anglo-Indian antiques, indeed, and oodles of fine marble. Visit Property Site | |
Single-floor villa 91, Ratanapura, has a large antique four-post bed with no topping, so to speak. The villa comes with 18-foot ceilings and some of the resort's hundreds of priceless antiques. Outside, you have a private terrace with a 24-foot swimming pool: you are also opposite the resort's spa, modelled on the ancient palaces of Mandalay. If time allows, take a 90-minute cultural tour, including rice barns and a Buddhist prayer hall. Visit Property Site | |
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