Positioned on a raised platform, the bed and bedcover are an intentional focal point in Urban’s design. The rolling bell curve of the bed’s headboard appeared across the designer’s work for years, reoccurring, for instance, in the silhouettes of settees that he designed for opera sets and for his Wiener Werkstätte of America showroom.
The green iridescent silk taffeta bedcover is hand-painted with cascades of delicate flowering vines but corseted at the corners with sultry black velvet ribbon. This bold contrast reflects the transitional age of Elaine Wormser, who stood at the crossroads of adolescence—no longer a child and not yet an adult.
