Metal Beds Make Their Case in the Season's Best-Appointed Bedrooms

Architectural Digest has put out its annual roundup of metal bed frames, and the list marks a turn back toward a material long treated as secondary to wood and upholstered frames. The magazine's selections span two distinct directions: silhouettes drawing on Space Age design, and canopy frames built for a more romantic, old-world look. For the kind of houses this desk covers — where a primary suite is as considered as the facade — the frame is no longer a background choice but a piece worth naming, the way a buyer might ask after an architect or a builder. The range AD presents, from sculptural to canopied, gives owners and designers here more latitude for that room than metal beds have typically allowed.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.