I always called it the swan bed, though it's shaped more like a boat. Christine, held against her will, hardly notices it, but I was captivated by the shape, the trailing drapery, the utter wonder of it.
So what happened to it? In a stroke of genius, Norma Desmond has it in "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Gloria Swanson played a silent star trying to make a comeback, surrounded by memorabilia from her Hollywood days. And yes, it was great seeing Buster Keaton and Erich Von Stroheim again, but seeing the bed was even more thrilling.
I started Second Life in 2008, and thought, "Maybe here I can have the swan bed!" But no one had built it. In 2009 I tried to build it myself and got this far:
I tried again in 2011 with a bit more success, though it still wasn't what I wanted:
I'm telling you this to let you know that this bed is something of an obsession for me. In 2015 DRD did a Phantom gacha. I played it until i got the bed. It's nicely done but the design is a bit different, more masculine:
Skip ahead to the present, and I'm taking a Blender class. There was an assignment to make a bed. Can you guess what my first thought was? I still can't do the baroque carving, but I'm getting closer.
