<http://schema.org/articleBody>
" Barbara King: That is the high-rise of beds. Richard Keith Langham: It&amp;#039;s huge \u2014 11 feet tall. I like this monumental bed in my small room. I&amp;#039;ve always had a thing for beds with presence. Yours evokes pageantry, a sense of ceremony. That makes me think of clients I once had who were newlyweds. I extended the posts of their rice bed five feet and put a pelmet canopy on top. When he saw it he said, &amp;#039;You turned our honeymoon bed into a Mardi Gras float!&amp;#039; Jackie Onassis was a client. Did you do her bed? I redid it. She had a canopy bed designed by John Fowler, with hangings in a Scalamandr\u00E9 chintz that had gotten a bit threadbare. She wanted to keep it exactly the same, so I had to get the company to reprint the fabric. Have you done red bedrooms for clients? Only one. It&amp;#039;s a hard color to sell outside a library or dining room. People are afraid of red. I have never been afraid of it. My greatest fear is beige. I love color, and I love this potent Chinese red. It&amp;#039;s so vibrant and stimulating. Isn&amp;#039;t that counterintuitive for a bedroom? Well, it&amp;#039;s also rich and dark and moody and cozy. The walls wrap around you like a cocoon. They&amp;#039;re Ultrasuede, which has an insulating, enveloping quality. This is my cave \u2014 my man cave, even though it doesn&amp;#039;t look it. It&amp;#039;s a great room to sleep in. And is it a great bed to sleep on? Oh, yes. I have a custom-made, old-fashioned mattress from Charles H. Beckley \u2014 all horsehair and cotton, and only seven and a half inches thick. I hate all these 20-inch-thick pillow-top things you get now. You can never do a bed that has much grace with a mattress that swollen. I do like my pillows extra plump, so I get good-quality down and put two of them in one pillow protector. How do you like your sheets? What&amp;#039;s that saying? Spend money on your shoes and your sheets, because you&amp;#039;re either in one or the other. Any nightly rituals? A little reading, a little TV, and a lot of ice cream. Do you ever forgo pajamas? Sometimes. Depends on who I&amp;#039;m with, honey. Make the Bed... Bed: Langham&amp;#039;s own design. Headboard and bed-skirt fabric: vintage batik. Crescendo Suede in Garnet wallcovering: leejofa.com. Table lamp: christopherspitzmiller.com. Floor lamp: besselink.com. Bamboo-and-wood \u00E9tag\u00E8res: johnrosselliantiques.com. Derek Rose pajamas: bergdorfgoodman.com. Robe: barneys.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.housebeautiful.com/room-decorating/bedrooms/interviews/a1323/richard-keith-langham-bedroom-1113/>