Who’s been sleeping in this Hollywood fantasy bed?
THE first day of a Belle Epoque sale held by Doyle of New York on February 25-26 awoke what one might, with greater reason than most, term a sleeper – the remarkable piece of furniture, catalogued as “An Italian Baroque style Mahogany Bed”, seen right. The bed was part of the Woodruff collection, comprising stock from a former Hollywood business that from 1922-60 was a popular rental source for the film studios, but stock that for the past 40 or more years has been in storage in Oklahoma.
Eight foot long, 6ft 4in wide and a towering 6ft 10in high (2.44 x 1.93 x 2.08m), the bed was charac…