Fernandino style boat bed; Spain, ca. 1830

Ferdinand style boat bed; Spain, circa 1830.
Wood.
Measurements: 108 x 223 x 97 cm.
The bed rests on four truncated cone-shaped legs that support the whole structure. The whole exudes timeless solemnity, full of references to the classical world, but freely reinvented. This is a piece of furniture with late neoclassical roots. The most aristocratic Spanish furniture of the 19th century tended to emulate features of the Empire Style of Napoleonic France. This bed brings together the most characteristic elements of that desire to recreate luxury. On the one hand, the gondola typology, forming an ascending curve joining the headboard and footboard in a single line, is prototypical of the period.