Francis has designed a new bed for luxury British bed manufacturer Savoir. Called ‘Louis’ it is the ultimate bespoke, haute-couture bed and goes on sale at Harrods this Spring.

Francis says, “When I started working on ideas for Savoir I decided that I didn’t want to design a headboard in the traditional sense but work around the idea of a bed collar - I’ve always been rather taken with Elizabethan ruffs and collars and inspired by the portrait artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger as well as the miniature artists such as Nicholas Hilliard and Hans Holbein the Younger. They add a sense of fashionable opulence and drama to their subjects, and it was an idea which I thought could translate well into a statement headboard design. For me, the one thing you must have in a bedroom is a statement bed - the headboard should always be the focus of the space as it’s the central element that your whole bedroom can be built around. So I began by sketching fluid lines for the silhouette of the bed that gave the effect of a collar with curved, winged edges which stand out from the rigid lines of the room structure.”