Extending a headboard past the bed is an old palace solution to a modern problem. Large rooms make ordinary furniture look stranded - a standard bed against a wide wall leaves two awkward gaps that no amount of lamps and pictures quite fixes. Building the headboard out to meet the bedsides closes those gaps by design rather than by decoration.
It also changes how the bedsides work. Tucked beneath the extensions, they stop being separate objects and become part of the composition, which is why they can carry mirrors here without adding visual clutter - the mirror reads as an inset panel in the wall rather than as another piece of furniture.
The fluted fan at the centre is the anchor for all of it. Our master Indian artisans cut it in a darker tone deliberately: across a headboard this wide, the eye needs one strong point of contrast or it drifts. Everything else - the gold, the cream, the pierced crest - is arranged outward from that single dark oval.