Sleigh bed
A sleigh bed (Engl. Sleigh bed ) or Kahn bed (French. Lit en bateau ) is a bed with raised head and foot. The name comes from the fact that the piece of furniture with its boat-like side walls looks similar to a traditional horse-drawn sleigh or a box-shaped boat. This type of bed was characteristic of the French Empire or German Biedermeier .
The head section of the sleigh bed is higher than the foot section and both can be curved outwards at the top. The headboard and footboard are typically the same height on a barge bed. The side walls can be curved or convex cut out several times and often end in curved ends at the head and foot ends. If the main ends have conspicuous arches, it is called a gondola shape. The head and foot sections can end in attached, sometimes ebonized wooden rolls.
