The Beauty of the Belgravia Headboard

We've been looking at headboards for a while now. I love the way they finish a bedroom and give a luxury boutique-hotel feel. I knew I wanted a buttoned headboard but the many that I looked at were too conservative or too boring. But then S and I came across this little beauty on a wedding-list-towel-feeling-expedition to The White Company and we both loved it on sight. Now we wait for the sales...

But which colour?

I'm not keen on the velvet - too 'boudoir'

Actually love the white - but is is practical?

The wing-back slightly-curved effect is something I haven't seen before.