Beauty in the Bedroom(16)

Gilty Pleasure by Design

The master bedroom of Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier is a gilt-dipped design fit for a star. Decorated by his wife, Joanna, it continues the formal traditional style of the public rooms with its rich velvets and silks and glowing gilded wood. The bed is the pièce de résistance: gilded classical architectural columns tower towards the ceiling where they are met by a bridge of lavishly carved crown molding for a one-of-a-kind headboard. In the space between the columns, an ornate gilded mirror is flanked by gold-leafed sconces.

Interior design: Joanna Poitier