Our latest features where raised platform add a stylish touch, ranging from a solid concrete bed in a home in Mexico to a sculptural wooden bed in a Tokyo flat.
Often used in minimalist and brutalist interiors, platform beds with no clearance underneath have a monolithic feel that can really create a statement in pared-back interiors.
Also among the examples below are a pale pastel-green bed in a Stockholm apartment and a bed in a Sydney cottage with a bath for a bedhead.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring and .
Located in ‘s central Hiroo neighbourhood, this apartment was designed to underline the quality of light in the interior and features wooden that was specially designed for the home.
In the bedroom, two matching wooden platform beds sit against wooden wall panels, adding a sculptural feel to the room.
Studio Prineas added a three-storey concrete extension to a 19th-century fisherman’s in Sydney that overlooks the harbour.
A platform bed sits in one of the home’s bedrooms and has a solid stone bath at its end, which doubles as a bedhead. Its design contrasts with a wooden shelf underneath and matches the green colour of the bedding.
A cosy grey velvet platform bed adds to the tactile feel of this bedroom in Highbury, , which was designed by local studio .
Integrated storage and simple, blocky furniture in muted colours create an uncluttered, calm atmosphere in the room.
A mono-pitched roof and sliding doors are among the features of this wooden that opens up to an English .
The wooden theme continues inside, where the material was used for the floors, part of the walls and a raised wooden bed, which sits at one end and has views out over the countryside.
Pastel colours decorate the walls in this Stockholm flat by local practice , which has a platform bed positioned as a centrepiece in the .
Its sage colour matches the pale green walls, while its simple shape is complemented by a sculptural lamp in black steel.
Inside this cube-shaped Mexico house, designer continued the concrete theme from the home’s exterior. The material was used not just to cover walls and floors but also to form a built-in platform bed.
Sat beneath one of the house’s asymmetrically cut-out windows, the bed matches the rest of the building, creating a coherent and pared-back interior.
Named for the Danish word used to describe a sense of cosiness and contentment, Hygge Studio in features plenty of tactile details that give it a sense of warmth.
In the bedroom, a rust-red platform bed has a clever headboard that also holds a practical shelf for and a bedside lamp.
Architecture studio referenced for this Mexican hotel, which has contemporary, minimalist bedrooms.
Here, plinths form seating and shelving as well as comfy platform beds topped with beige-coloured linens that match the white walls.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring and .