Does The White Company's Bedding Live Up to the Hype? I Slept in the Brand's Most Popular Sheets to Compare Them Against the Competition

It might be one of the best-known places to buy luxury bedding, but does this brand's Egyptian cotton offering live up to its reputation?

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Livingetc Verdict

The White Company's Savoy bedding is the brand's hotel-style design with cording and Oxford pillowcases. It's elegant and elevated, but comfortable, too. The Egyptian cotton is soft, and the construction is impeccable. It's a little more classic looking, so it won't suit the most modern homes, and it needs good pressing to keep it looking its best.

Reasons to buy
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    Super soft and comfortable

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    Quality Egyptian cotton

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    Crisp, fresh, hotel-style bedding

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    Oxford pillow

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    Cording in a variety of colors

Reasons to avoid
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    Needs pressing to keep looking its best

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    Little more traditional in style

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    Limited color palette

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If you had to ask me where to buy luxury bedding, one of my first suggestions would be The White Company. I've had sheets from this brand before, and always really liked them.

The White Company has a particular aesthetic, especially when it comes to its bed linen. The majority of its bedding is pretty classic, timeless, and generally white — but it's fair to say that for a lot of people, that's what color bedding should be. If you're one of them, then yes, The White Company is one of the best bedding brands for you.

For this review, like the other brands I've covered on Livingetc, I asked the brand to test their most popular bed sheets to get a sense of the general quality. In this instance, it was The White Company's Savoy Egyptian cotton bedding that I put through a series of tests.

This is the first version of The White Company bedding review you're reading, meaning these sheets have been inspected, washed, and slept in for at least two weeks. Here's how I rated it on style, comfort, and value, against the competition.

Reviewed by
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Reviewed by
Luke Arthur Wells

Luke has been in the interiors industry for over 10 years as a content creator and stylist. Not only has he worked with many of the best bedding brands in the UK, he also already owns a vast collection of premium bedding, both for his own home, and for photoshoots. For our bedding reviews, Luke has tested each set for an initial two weeks, and will be updating each review after they've been washed and slept in over the course of a four to six week period. This bedding was tested with pillows and a duvet from the Wool Room, filled with natural wool (Luke's secret weapon to battling his hot sleeper profile, he says), and he counts himself as a side sleeper.

Is The White Company's Bedding Good Quality?

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Cool to the touch bedding is a good sign.

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Before sleeping in this bedding, there are a few tests to put it through to get an indication of its durability. After all, bedding goes through a lot, and requires a lot of washing, so it needs to stand up to the task.

First of all, the touch test — the best bedding materials are cool to the touch (in any case, cooler than the air temperature), which suggests it will help regulate your temperature when you're sleeping in them. Cotton, generally, isn't quite as good as the best linen sheets at this, but The White Company's Egyptian cotton did feel almost as cool to the touch as the linen bedding I tested.

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For this style of bedding, the corded edges make for super strong seams.

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I also like to take a look at the stitching inside to get a sense of how much care has been taken with the manufacturing, and potentially how long these sheets will last. For The White Company, the stitching was neat — with two rows of single stitches. Other bedding tends to have strong overlocked edges, but this isn't really comparable to this particular style from The White Company, as the corded edges to the duvet and pillowcases stand in for these seams, meaning they're very tough and durable.

How Is The White Company Bedding to Sleep In?

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I'd rate The White Company's Egyptian cotton bedding as super soft.

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There's no two ways about it, because these are Egyptian cotton sheets, they're exceptionally soft and comfortable. More so than other cotton sheets I've slept in recently, I could get the sense of breathability and air circulation when sleeping in them, and, as I was testing these across several particular hot summer weeks, I felt they were wicking moisture, something that's so important for hot weather bedding.

I also rate how good a fitted sheet is as part of a bedding review's sleepability — one of my biggest sleep bugbears is a fitted sheet that slips off in the night. The White Company has deep fitted sheets, including as part of the Savoy Collection, with strong elasticated corners that didn't budge. It was one of the best fitted sheets I've tested recently, perhaps only second to the Rise & Fall deep fitted sheet, which also had grips around the entire sheet band.

How Does The White Company Bedding Rank on Style?

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The White Company has a very classic style of bedding.

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I've never really successfully styled a bed with Oxford pillowcases, and I think I still need to work out the best way to make the pillowcases' flanges stand up better to look neat. The Savoy is a more classic style of bedding that won't be to everyone's taste, but looks elegant and expensive for the right home.

Of course, The White Company has a very limited color palette across its bedding (though for the Savoy sheets, there are a few different options for contrast cording). If you don't like white bedding, it might not be the store for you, but there's often something extra added to the design that elevates it beyond the everyday. The brand also has a few lines that do something slightly different with color and texture, including the Aria Stripe bedding, which channels the huge bedding trend for supersize stripes.

Is The White Company Bedding Worth It?

At £251 for a bedding set of a king-size duvet, two pillowcases, and a king-size deep fitted sheet, these Egyptian cotton sheets aren't your budget option. So, when weighing up whether they're worth the money, let's look at a few things.

Style: Buying into The White Company is partly about buying into a specific aesthetic: fresh, clean, wholesome, elegant, and elevated. In terms of its bedding, it does a very classic hotel style look, so if that's what you like, and you want to buy into a brand with some prestige, then yes, they're definitely worth the money.

Materials: Where else The White Company finds its value is that you're buying very good quality textiles. It's a 400-thread-count Egyptian cotton percale — a make up that makes it such an enjoyable bedding to sleep in. However, for contrast, M&S's Egyptian cotton bedding set would set you back just £94. It's a 230 thread count percale cotton (which I've not tested yet), but it's a fairly large price difference.

Would I buy The White Company's bedding? Absolutely. If you want a classic look, and great quality Egyptian cotton, this is where to shop for it.

Luke Arthur Wells
Contributing Writer

Luke Arthur Wells is a freelance design writer, award-winning interiors blogger and stylist, known for neutral, textural spaces with a luxury twist. He's worked with some of the UK's top design brands, counting the likes of Tom Dixon Studio as regular collaborators and his work has been featured in print and online in publications ranging from Domino Magazine to The Sunday Times. He's a hands-on type of interiors expert too, contributing practical renovation advice and DIY tutorials to a number of magazines, as well as to his own readers and followers via his blog and social media. He might currently be renovating a small Victorian house in England, but he dreams of light, spacious, neutral homes on the West Coast.