The Finishing Touch for a Well-Run House: AD Puts Percale Through Its Paces

Architectural Digest has gone through the trial of sleeping on percale and come back with a ranked list of ten it stands behind. The brief was the guest-room standard every good house here aspires to, the crisp bed that makes a weekend visitor feel the place is run properly. What set the winners apart, by the magazine's account, was the hand of the fabric: a flat, matte weave that stays pleasantly cool against the skin rather than warming through the night. For anyone finishing a principal suite in Palm Beach or Aspen, it is the kind of detail that gets noticed long after the architecture has been admired.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.