Fulham

Overview

Fulham is a 2015 bed by Rodolfo Dordoni. The page says it is named after the vibrant street at the heart of London and reflects Dordoni's vision of understated elegance and practical refinement. It rests on a solid wooden base and has a wrap-around headboard upholstered in textile or leather, with a matching bench for the foot of the bed.

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Construction

The structure of bed and bench is stained solid wood with non-slip plastic feet. The headboard core is Polimex, a polyester and polyurethane composite, wrapped in dense polyurethane foam and finished with a light velvet cover. The sheet offers a low and a high bed surround, both with a metal frame padded in polyurethane foam, and the high version has a metal slatted base support with a soft PVC cover.

Specifications

• FLEKSB, lower bedframe: 210 cm wide and 230 cm long outside, 104 cm high (the vertical value is not labelled on the drawing)

A bed named after Fulham Road

The datasheet traces the name to Fulham Road in the City of London, and says the Milanese designer made the bed for a comfortable, regenerating night's sleep. It describes the wooden base as the element that makes the bed the protagonist of itself, and the wrap-around headboard as a cosy niche for resting, reading or watching television.

The bench at the foot

A bench placed at the foot of the bed completes the project. The page presents it as extra seating or a surface for personal items, and says that together the elements of Fulham combine elegance, craftsmanship and versatility.