Senufo Wood Bed

One long plank on two blocky legs, and the plank is doing most of the talking.

This bed is Senufo, from Ivory Coast, Mali or Burkina Faso, West Africa, and dates to the early 20th century. It is wood. Senufo carvers are known for low beds and benches, often cut from a single piece of timber and used for resting indoors or in the shade, and they are admired today for their sculptural plainness. The top is a broad slab, gently dished and lifted slightly at each end, its surface worn to a warm honey tone. Two splayed trapezoidal legs below are darker and rougher. It is 50.5 inches long, 10 deep and 7.5 high.

Low, plain and in no hurry to be anything else.