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Issue 6/6 – Bed

In Dirty Furniture’s final issue, we rip off the covers to reveal how the bed, sleep – or the lack of it – shapes our lives.

Autumn 2023
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Anecdotes

including Thermo bed, Seeing with your eyes closed and Best human dog beds 2023.

Design

On beds and bodies

Cat Rossi discovers her mattress is a hotbed of political tensions.

Law

Awake to life and freedom?

Manijeh Verghese on India’s right to sleep.

Photo essay

By my bedside

Paola Ristoldo photographs the bedsides of Max Lamb, Federico Campagna, James Shaw and more.

Craft

Learning from the petate

Miguel Arjona on Mexico’s most ancient bed.

Urbanism

The village that never sleeps

Sarah Barnes travels to Port Morien, Canada

TV

Are you still watching?

Ilona Gaynor turns on her screen.

Interview

with William Brouwer, inventor of the convertible futon bed and Luke T Baker.

Fashion

Puff Piece

Philippa Snow on wearing duvets in the street.

Photo essay

Charles Holland on the avant-garde bed

Photography

Love, Candy

Louis Shankar on photographing the death bed.

Interview

with Soyeon Yi, first Korean astronaut, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and Anna Bates.

Architecture

Together, in Dreams

Natalie Fizer and Richard Sommer make the case for a modern abaton.

Photo essay

Photographer Oscar Lidqvist and writer Brigitte Steger on Inemuri