more lavish beds like canopied beds or four poster draped with netting often represented an ostentatious displays of weather rather than a means to keep warm or keep out insects and vermin antique Chinese beds for instance made from a solid platform with posts at each end and canopied with curtains were the exclusive preserve of noblemen India colonial past produce larges four poster beds draped with India cotton or mosquito netting India is also home to wonderfully decadent swinging beds and chairs that are suspended from chains or thick rope and day beds that beg to be lazed on during hot sultry afternoonss