Box-bed

[4] Box-beds were also used to protect people of the home from the domestic animals (pigs, hens) living in the house.

[6] Similar types of enclosed bed furniture was once also found in western Britain; Devon, Cornwall, Wales, and particularly in Gower.

Fine pieces were put in museums (Lampaul-Guimiliau, Nantes, Quimper, Rennes, St-Brieuc), while most of them were converted into bookshelves, dressers or TV cabinets.

The contemporary Breton designers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec have reinterpreted the form with their lit-clos, 2000 for Galerie kreo.

One of the advantages of the closet-bed was that it could be built into the living room and closed off during the day, making a separate bedroom unnecessary.

These closet-beds held two people, and beneath them were often drawers "rolkoetsen" that pulled out and provided beds for the children.