Description
Modern Lifestyle, Restrained Elegance
The Schramm Origins Cleo Leather Provence Bed is Berlin designer Hanne Willmann‘s contribution to Schramm’s celebrated Origins collection — a bed conceived around a single design idea: genuine lightness without sacrifice of comfort. Almost levitating on its filigree powder-coated metal legs, the Cleo pairs a soft, deeply comfortable cross-stitched headboard with the visual restraint that modern bedrooms demand. This is the full leather version in Provence — a warm, sophisticated leather colour that gives the Cleo a refinement and depth that fabric versions cannot quite match. It is handmade in Germany by one of Europe’s oldest and most respected luxury bed manufacturers.
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Hanne Willmann — Lightness as a Design Principle
Hanne Willmann is a Berlin-based designer whose work is characterised by the pursuit of timeless forms through light, essential shapes — a design sensibility that aligns naturally with Schramm’s own philosophy of natural materials and sustainable manufacturing. Her brief for the Cleo was to create a bed that would be simultaneously timeless and modern — and the result is a bed whose formal restraint is itself a statement. The Cleo is not minimal in the cold sense — it is minimal in the sense that everything present is necessary and nothing unnecessary has been added.
The cross-stitching on the headboard is the Cleo’s most distinctive visual detail — horizontal quilted channels running across the full width of the headboard, creating a pattern of shadow and light that gives the upholstery textural depth while reinforcing the horizontal lines of the overall design. The headboard is angled slightly backward — a specific ergonomic decision that allows the sitter to lean against it in a natural, relaxed posture for extended periods without the discomfort that vertical headboards cause.
Leather Upholstery in Provence — The Schramm Origins Leather Difference
The standard Cleo is available in a wide range of high-quality upholstery fabrics — including the signature Pepe alpaca wool in the Origins collection. The Leather Provence version specifies premium leather throughout — frame, headboard, and all visible surfaces — in the Provence colour.
Leather upholstery on the Cleo brings several specific qualities that fabric cannot replicate. The leather’s surface sheen and material depth interact with the cross-stitched headboard pattern differently from fabric — the stitched channels create more defined shadow lines, the surface reflects ambient light softly, and the overall effect is a headboard of greater visual density and presence. Leather also develops its own surface character with time — a gentle patina that records use and light exposure in a way that enriches rather than diminishes the piece.
The leather is applied by Schramm’s craftspeople in the Winnweiler manufactory — hand-fitted to the specific geometry of the Cleo’s headboard, frame, and side panels. Schramm is consistently ranked among Germany’s leading luxury brands, alongside names such as Montblanc, Leica, A. Lange & Söhne, and Walter Knoll — companies whose positioning reflects the level of craft and material specification Schramm maintains.
Schramm Origins — The Modular System Behind the Cleo
The Cleo belongs to Schramm’s Origins collection — a modular design system comprising upholstery elements, headboards, panels, and accessories that allows each customer to compose their individual bed from millions of combination possibilities. All products in the Origins collection are available in custom sizes.
Sleep Gallery holds Schramm’s full Origins Cleo catalogue — available in multiple leather colours and fabric options. The Cleo can be specified in your preferred leather colour, and the Schramm Mythos or Divina mattress is recommended for pairing. Visit our showroom in central Tbilisi or speak to our sleep experts at 596 14 9977 to configure your Cleo.
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Free Delivery and Professional Assembly in Tbilisi
The Schramm Origins Cleo is delivered and assembled in your home free of charge in Tbilisi by Sleep Gallery’s professional team.
Product Details
- Designer: Hanne Willmann (Berlin), 2020
- Collection: Schramm Origins Complete — modular system
- Upholstery: premium leather (Provence colour) — frame, headboard, side panels
- Headboard: cross-stitched, angled for relaxed leaning
- Legs: filigree powder-coated metal, 15cm height
- Available in custom sizes
- Recommended mattress: Schramm Mythos or Schramm Divina
- Full leather colour and fabric catalogue available at Sleep Gallery
- Handmade in Germany — Schramm manufactory, Winnweiler (est. 1923, family business)
- Delivery and assembly: free in Tbilisi
FAQ:
Q: What is the Schramm Origins collection and how does it differ from a standard bed purchase?
The Origins collection is Schramm’s modular bed design system — a comprehensive catalogue of upholstery elements, headboards, panels, side boards, accessories, and finishes that allows each customer to compose their individual bed from millions of combination possibilities.
Where a standard bed purchase offers a fixed design in a limited number of colour options, the Origins system treats the bed as a composed object — the headboard style, the side panel finish, the leg type, the upholstery material and colour, the size, and any additional elements (such as integrated shelf units in the Cleo Plus version) can all be specified individually. All products in the Origins collection are available in custom sizes — non-standard dimensions are handled as standard rather than as special orders.
The Cleo is one of the Origins Complete models — a fully designed and harmoniously balanced bed within the Origins system, requiring only material and colour specification rather than individual component assembly. It represents a specific design vision by Hanne Willmann within the broader Origins modular framework. Sleep Gallery holds Schramm’s full Origins catalogue and can configure any combination.
Q: Why is the Cleo headboard angled — what difference does it make?
The slight backward angle of the Cleo’s headboard is a deliberate ergonomic decision rather than an aesthetic choice — and it makes a meaningful practical difference in daily use.
A perfectly vertical headboard requires the sitter to lean their back against a surface that is perpendicular to their spine’s natural angle. Extended contact with a vertical surface creates tension in the neck and upper back — the body compensates by pushing the head and upper spine forward. This is comfortable for a few minutes but becomes fatiguing over longer periods of reading or relaxing in bed.
The Cleo’s headboard is angled to match the natural recline of the upper body in a relaxed seated-in-bed position — the same principle applied in ergonomic chair design. The back can rest against the headboard in a natural, released posture without compensatory tension. The cross-stitched upholstery adds tactile softness to the contact surface, further improving the comfort of extended leaning. Together — angle and soft upholstery — the Cleo is genuinely designed for sitting in bed as much as sleeping.
Q: Who is Hanne Willmann and what characterises her design approach?
Hanne Willmann is a Berlin-based product and furniture designer whose work is consistently characterised by a search for timeless forms through light, essential shapes — an approach that values restraint over decoration and durability over trend responsiveness.
Her collaboration with Schramm on the Cleo reflects a specific alignment: Schramm’s commitment to natural materials, sustainable production, and handcraft quality in Winnweiler is directly compatible with Willmann’s design philosophy of products that are intended to be values to pass to future generations. She approaches each design project with the question of what is truly necessary — what form, what material, what detail serves the user — and removes everything that does not.
The Cleo’s design resolution is visible in exactly this approach: the cross-stitching on the headboard is not decorative in the conventional sense — it creates structural padding channels that give the upholstery its specific softness and lean comfort while simultaneously being the headboard’s strongest visual feature. Form and function unified, nothing added for decoration’s own sake.
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Q: How does the Cleo Leather compare to the fabric versions — is leather worth the difference?
The Cleo is available in a wide range of upholstery fabrics — including the signature Pepe alpaca wool that is among the finest natural fibres available in the Origins collection. The leather version represents a different rather than simply a higher specification — and whether it suits a specific customer depends on how they relate to the material qualities each brings.
Leather: develops a surface patina over time, interacts distinctively with the cross-stitching pattern to create more defined shadow lines, provides a sense of material density and visual presence. It is cooler to the touch and more resistant to surface wear. The Provence colour specifically provides a warm, sophisticated neutral that works across multiple interior palettes.
Alpaca wool and fabric: warmer to the touch, softer as a sensory experience, available in a wider range of colours and textures. The Pepe alpaca wool specifically creates the irregular texture variations of light and shade noted in the Cleo’s design brief.
For those who appreciate leather as a material in its own right — its ageing properties, its material richness, its specific interaction with light — the Leather Provence version is the more rewarding long-term choice. For those who prefer warmth and textural softness at the skin-contact surface, a fabric or alpaca wool version may suit better. Our team can show both in our showroom at 596 14 9977.
Q: The Schramm Cleo costs more than standard upholstered beds — what justifies the price?
The price reflects three specific distinctions from a standard upholstered leather bed.
First, handmade production in Germany: the Cleo is made by hand in Schramm’s Winnweiler manufactory — a family business in its fourth generation, operating since 1923, ranked consistently among Germany’s leading luxury brands alongside Montblanc, Leica, and Walter Knoll. Handmade production to Schramm’s specification requires significantly more skilled labour than the machine-sewn, foam-padded frames of standard upholstered beds.
Second, the Origins modular system: custom sizes as standard, millions of configuration combinations, individual component specification — the infrastructure and catalogue depth that supports this level of personalisation represents a production investment that mass-market bed manufacturers do not make.
Third, the design: Hanne Willmann’s Cleo is a resolved design with a specific ergonomic purpose — the angled headboard, the cross-stitch channel pattern, the filigree leg proportion — all calibrated decisions that create a bed of lasting formal quality. The design serves users for decades rather than seasons.
Free delivery and professional assembly in Tbilisi, and full Schramm Origins Cleo catalogue available at Sleep Gallery.
