Six Bed Frames for the Primary Bedroom, Put Through Their Paces by Architectural Digest

The editors at Architectural Digest have put a field of bed frames to use in their own homes and narrowed the results to six worth recommending. Among them is a platform frame made of bamboo that can be assembled with no tools whatsoever, a real convenience in a house where the bedrooms are finished last and the installers have already gone home. Another is a frame whose base lifts to open a compartment beneath the mattress, roomy enough to put away a full season of cold-weather clothing. For a reader furnishing a house in Palm Beach or the Hamptons, where closets fill quickly and the bedroom is expected to look as resolved as the rooms downstairs, a frame that conceals an entire winter's worth of coats is as much a planning decision as a furniture one. The complete list, with the editors' notes on each, appears at Architectural Digest.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.