I picked the one in SoHo, on Grand street between Wooster and Greene. With the amount of science gone into making this, we’re betting that not even princess Daria – from The Princess and the Pea – would feel a thing, even if there was an entire bag of frozen peas placed beneath the mattress.Before you purchase a Hästens bed, you’re encouraged to stop by one of their lofty showrooms. Now, that’s one bed we’d like to have in our homes during this circuit breaker. And like the other Hästens mattresses, not only are you able to choose from four different tensions, you can also opt for split firmness. Each comes with its colour-coordinated vegetable-tanned burnished leather trim, along with gold brass rivets and mirror-finished wood borders. You’ll get to pick from four colour options: Black Shadow, Phantom Charcoal, Natural Shale and Traditional Blue. While there aren’t major adjustments to the mattress in terms of materials or formula – apart from the addition of slow-growing Swedish pine in the mattress – Vividus craftsmen also had to undergo a training programme with a Swedish master saddle-maker before they were allowed to make a Grand Vividus. A bed may not necessarily bring the same of joy to you as a supercar does on a highway (unless bed collecting is a passion of yours), but it’ll pull its weight when it comes to curing that insomnia. After all, think about how much you’re paying for a car in Singapore, and the number of hours you spend in it. And if you think about it, the price isn’t that farfetched. While 350kg is heavy for a bed, remember that a bulk of the weight comes from the bed frame, which is essential when it comes to keeping the shape of the mattress. A standard 2.1 x 2.1m variant, which weighs a whopping 350kg, will set you back some US$390,000 (S$552,000). Sizes are completely customisable, and go up to 3 x 3m. What you’ll receive is a sturdy bed, with an equally sturdy frame. In the same vein, Rafauli cleverly used this concept when deciding on the stitching and hardness of leather. Not only should it be soft enough to fit the curvature of the horse’s back, it also needs to be sturdy to endure the load of the rider. He also took inspiration from the art of saddle-making.Ī good saddle is paramount to horse-riding. The Canadian interior designer took a leaf from haute couture and interior architecture, using leather buckles, brass studs and a trunk-like design (which reminds one of Louis Vuittons’ damier graphite leather) for the base of the bed. No stranger to collaborations – it’s worked with Lotte New York Palace and Bernadotte & Kylberg – Hästens enlisted the help of Ferris Rafauli, the mastermind behind Drake’s mansion. Yes, this is the same bed you’ll find in Drake’s not-so-humble abode. Hästens has unveiled the Grand Vividus, touted as the world’s most comfortable and luxurious bed. Ferris Rafauli, the man behind the Grand Vividus and designer of rapper Drake’s mansionįast forward to today. Each was built to not only embrace the curves, regardless of body type, but also provide a sense of weightlessness and provide better sleep all at once. What clients ended up with was no ordinary luxury mattress. When Leander found the right formula, it took four master craftsmen (including Leander) over 320 hours to produce a single bed. He reworked the amount of bounce in each coil, then added separate layers of horsehair, cotton, flax and wool in between. Leander took the mattress – along with everything we thought we knew about it – apart. It took two years for Jan-Erik Leander, master craftsmen of Hästens, to design the bed from scratch. But the brand knew just what the bed was worth. Now, this was an eye-popping figure at that time, even though Hästens’ mattresses already retailed for a cool five figures. In 2016, it introduced the world to Vividus, a mattress that cost over US$150,000 (S$212,000), depending on the size you went for.
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