Featured Two beds, zero clue

Hi all, first post on here, thanks for reading.

I bought these twin beds about eight years ago in Australia (where I lived) and have stored them since (in the UK for most of that time) but I know very little about them and I'd love to put it out to a wider audience to get your opinions.

They have no identifying markings, badges etc and I'm not a regular "antiquer", only occasional pieces for around the home so I'm not as educated as yourselves when it comes to eras, origins, wood types etc.

Let me know your thoughts, if you'd be so kind.

 

Those are lovely ! Id say they are 1930s,possibly oak(though wood isnt my forte).Is that inlay possibly silver ? Oh and welcome.

 

Welcome! I'm sure someone here will know or at least point you in the right direction. They are beautiful beds!


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I agree with Johnny, 1930s. And I also think tiger oak inlay.
If the silver color is metal and not paint, I doubt that it is real silver as that would have turned black by now. More likely pewter. Would aluminum have been in use during the 1930s?

 

Agree with the others. Art deco 1930s, oak, with pewter inlay. Likely English but possibly French, Belgium, or Holland unless they made this kind of thing in Australia. I know nothing of Australian furniture.

 

It is definitely a metal band of some kind, I've attached another pic. It's kind of a grey colour in natural light, pewter makes sense to me. Thanks to all who've so far replied.

 

I suspect you're right verybrad, it may have been brought out from the UK to Australia as they seemed unusual to me (i grew up in oz). You'll see from the pics the wood grain alternates between horizontal to vertical inside the 'flower' and outside the flower, the alternate (eg horizontal inside, vertical outside)

Have you seen anything with this type of inlay before?

 

Typically this would be done with something besides oak, which makes me think British rather than European. You often see French art deco pieces with alternating grain inlays in more exotic hardwoods.

 

Excellent photographs James Booker.

 

Thanks Lucille, I used a fixed 50mm lens on a Canon 550d which gives you a nice shallow depth of field (it also makes me look better at photography than I really am)

 

Don't blame the camera .....