At the Vidago Palace in Portugal, this contemporary beige headboard complements the suite’s deep blue walls—and the eye-popping cherry blossom wallpaper.
A room at La Sultana in Marrakech is bathed in Moroccan style—from its walls, columns, floors and ceilings to its ornate bed and headboard.
A small platform bed gives a tiny room at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon, irresistible charm; its low headboard ensures that the salvaged planks, which line the back wall, take center stage and preserve the space’s rustic mood.
An abstract black-and-white headboard fabric on this bed, found at the the Merchant in Salem, Massachusetts, echoes the black in the door and millwork and serves to unify the room’s palette.
The red quilted headboard at El Fenn in Marrakech goes all the way to the ceiling; its vertical lines help divert attention from the room’s narrow proportions.
In this bedroom at the Ham Yard Hotel in London, designer Kit Kemp used her own Tulu fabric for Chelsea Textiles to cover the headboard.
The Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy, bravely mixed patterns in this suite, with a North African inspired headboard among Italian tile zigzag floors and an ornate inlay chest.