The Guest Room That Folds Into the Wall Gets a Short List

Architectural Digest has gone through the wall-bed market and come back with seven frames it considers worth the floor they occupy, weighed on appearance as much as on the room they return when closed. The magazine's case is hospitality without compromise: a proper bed for the friend staying the night, and a study or library that looks like one the other fifty-one weeks of the year. For a Manhattan owner deciding whether a second bedroom earns its price per square foot, that is the arithmetic that matters.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.