Designers often pull inspirations for designs from a culmination of experiences: their education, especially in history, places they've visited, places they've traveled; art they've seen, literature they've read and films they've viewed.

The Couture Doll Bed concept is based on all these experiences, but most especially one area: a book, A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, that tells a story of a little girl relegated to living in an attic. Inspiration also came from the stories of Little Women where she often imagined the house and interiors of Louisa May Alcott's famous characters.

Spurred on by her daughter's love of her dolls, and those visions and stories lasting years in her memory, Ms. Bersano decided to bring The Couture Doll Bed to life... in this past year... for the very popular 18" dolls.

The Couture Doll Bed evokes this image of this little bed in an attic outfitted for a little girl as a princess with a sweet, lovely curved pine headboard trimmed with a carved wreath, outfitted in all the petticoats and linens, with fur pillows and throws and coverlets to keep warm.

A bed, also, that one could find Little Women characters sitting in while chatting or reading. A bed that is individual and feminine and special. The designer uses the contrast of the humble pine bed frame with the opulent overflow of linens to achieve this effect.

Because the bed is a "designed piece" using "the Principles and Elements of Design" of symmetry, variety, repetition, balance, and contrast, among others, the complete bed not only provides hours of delight to children as they play with the frame and linens but it also exposes them to fine textiles, materials and workmanship, training their eye to fine decorative arts with sophisticated pattern combinations and color palettes and classical lines of furniture.

Children are only young once. Every young girl of 8 and up should experience the enchantment of The Couture Doll Bed because their dreams and memories will last a lifetime.

The bed is completely designed and handcrafted to last many years and is destined to be a timeless heirloom. The bed is American in charm and enchantment, American in quality and detail, and American in its original design, U.S. Patent D557,353.