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Of all the French eye candy to lose yourself in while watching Netflix’s Emily in Paris—the pastries, the Chanel—Emily’s singular sunburst headboard is the one detail we couldn’t help but dissect on Slack when the series first aired in 2020, and we spotted it again in the third season.
Fun fact: it isn’t technically a headboard at all. The decor is the handiwork of set designer Christelle Maisonneuve, who picked up dried tropical leaves at a wholesale flower market and arranged them in a fan-shaped pattern above the mattress, securing the fronds to the wall with staples and glue. (The set walls are plywood, but you could easily follow these steps on drywall, too.)
“The artistic direction for Emily’s apartment was ‘charming but simple,’ and as soon as I noticed the leaves at the market, I thought they’d make an interesting headboard,” says Maisonneuve, citing early-20th-century mahogany Thonet beds—whose shape was later reinterpreted in the ’70s as rattan peacock beds—as her inspiration.
The statement-making piece does have one downside, says the set designer: “The dried leaves were making so much noise when Lily Collins [who plays Emily] was moving in the bed!” Luckily, our own bedrooms aren’t TV sets. Plus the breezy look is a cool alternative to rattan that’s simple enough to put together in a weekend. And the result? Très chic!
This story was originally published in October 2020. It has since been updated.
Julie Vadnal is deputy editor of Domino. She edits and writes stories about shopping for new and vintage furniture, covers new products (and the tastemakers who love them), and tours the homes of cool creatives. She lives in Brooklyn.
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