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Musa and Mirage: choosing a modern bedroom collection

This guide compares two contemporary bedroom collections, Musa by Francesco Pasi and Mirage by Cantori, to help you decide which one suits your house and the way you live in it. We look at wood, upholstery, proportion and light, and at what each bed does to the room around it. By the end you should know which direction feels like yours.

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Start from the house, then look at the people in it

The right collection is the one that agrees with your house first and your taste second. A bedroom with calm plaster walls and a soft northern light asks for something different from a room with a strong architectural idea of its own. Musa and Mirage are both modern, but they speak differently: Musa in pale ash on slender legs, a bed that lets the wall and the air stay visible, and Mirage in upholstery, with a wide headboard that fills the wall and gives the room a centre.

Then think about who sleeps here. Two people who read in bed, a room that is also a quiet retreat, someone who dresses early before the household wakes: each habit points toward different pieces. If you are gathering luxury bedroom ideas, write these habits down before you look at finishes, because they decide more than any colour will.

Ask Nobili Design for a quote on the Musa bedroom, in the ash finish you prefer.

Musa suits a room that wants light wood and a calm line

Choose Musa when you want the bedroom to feel light, tactile and a little domestic, closer to a well-kept home than to a hotel. Every piece is in ash, from the bed to the chest of drawers and the wardrobe, and the finish is yours to pick: Lacquered White Ash, Clay Ash, Earth Ash, Stone Ash or Ash Grey. The bed rests on slender solid ash legs, and its headboard comes in two models, A and B, rising to 105 cm.

The bed for a 160 x 200 mattress measures 167 cm across and the 180 x 200 measures 187 cm, both 201 cm deep, which leaves a free step on each side in a medium room. The chest of drawers, 130 cm wide and 85 cm high, stands on the same slender legs, so the floor stays visible under both pieces and the light travels. The two-door sliding wardrobe, 286 cm wide and 250 cm high, carries horizontal or vertical mirror panels that bring the window across the room. In Clay Ash or Stone Ash the palette turns soft and mineral; Ash Grey is cooler and more graphic.

Tell us about your room and we will prepare a quote for a Mirage composition.

Mirage suits a room that wants a sculpted, upholstered centre

Choose Mirage when you want the bed to be the centre of the room, soft to the eye and generous in volume. Designed by Maurizio Manzoni for Cantori, it wraps the sleeper in a wide veneered headboard that carries two rotating support surfaces, so the bedside becomes part of the bed itself. Among luxury beds it is one of the most composed, and it asks for a wall with some breathing space around it. Mirage Easy keeps a quieter line, with a vertically stitched padded headboard.

The upholstery list is long: Bellagio velvet, tweed, Tessuto Roma, leather, suede, nabuk and soft eco leathers, so the same shape feels warm in tweed and deep in velvet. The mattress sizes are 160 x 200, 180 x 200 and 200 x 200 cm, and the frame stays at 27 cm, which keeps the line low and the room calm. Beside it, we like the wooden bedside table on a curved metal base, or the low elliptical one with a top in mirror, smoky mirror, marble or stone. The chest of drawers, with three soft-close drawers, rests on a single hollowed metal bar that also becomes the handle.

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Two Italian makers with two ways of being modern

Francesco Pasi and Cantori both make to order in Italy, but they reach modern from opposite directions. One starts from ash and its grain, the other from shaped upholstery, veneer and metal. Francesco Pasi furniture brings to the bedroom the feel of wood you want to touch, finished in soft colours, with drawer sides in Tanganyika walnut and slow-closing runners that make the daily gesture quiet.

Cantori furniture brings a more sculpted presence: a curved metal base, a hollowed bar, a headboard that holds the whole composition. In a house with clean lines and strong materials, that presence feels deliberate rather than decorated. Because every piece is made to order, size, finish and upholstery can be settled with us, one decision after another, until the room reads as a single idea.

Write to Nobili Design for a quote, and we will compare both collections for your plan.

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Decide by wall, light and the habits of the people sleeping there

Let the wall and the light decide first, the habits second. A pale, bright room carries Musa naturally, while a room with deeper tones or less daylight gains from the upholstered volume of Mirage. Measure the wall behind the bed and the free floor on each side, then imagine the room at night, with only the bedside lights on.

If you prefer a bed that stays discreet and lets the furniture speak, take Musa. If you want softness underfoot and at your back, take Mirage. Musa's wood asks for a little care: natural wax from time to time, a soft dry wool cloth, and a place away from direct heat. When you want to see the two side by side, our luxury bedroom collections give you the full range, and we are glad to help you test each one against your plan.

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