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Two-sided, innerspring pillow-top mattress on box-spring foundation with a woven damask cover also called a mattress sheet. A mattress is a large, usually rectangular pad for supporting a person lying down, especially for sleeping. It is designed to be used as a bed, or on a bed frame as part of a bed.
Silentnight is the beds and mattresses manufacturer and is located in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England. The company is owned by HIG Europe [ 2 ] who acquired the company on 10 May 2011. The company also manufactures Rest Assured beds & mattresses and was originally founded in 1946.
While most beds are single mattresses on a fixed frame, there are other varieties, such as the murphy bed, which folds into a wall, the sofa bed, which folds out of a sofa, the trundle bed, which is stored under a low, twin-sized bed and can be rolled out to create a larger sleeping area, and the bunk bed, which provides two mattresses on two ...
In 1964 it was bought by the Simmons Bedding Company, and moved its premises.It was owned by Cauval Group of France (who made the Cumfilux brand) as part of Continental Sleep Holdings from the early 1990s when it bought the company for £17m, but went into receivership in February 2016, and is now owned by Adova Group, funded by Perceva.
Early description of Vispring mattress. Vispring beds are handmade using natural materials such as wool, cotton, horsehair, coir, silk, cashmere, mohair and alpaca fleece rather than synthetic materials and foam. The “VI” in Vispring stands for the Roman numeral 6. This represents the six turns to each coil which has been their trademark.
Some closed-beds were built one above the other in a double-decker, two-story arrangement. In these cases, young people would sleep in the top area. [3] Closed-beds were 1.60 to 1.70 m length, long enough for people of that region who were rather small. And because they slept in an almost sitting position, they leaned on three or four pillows. [4]
A pallet is a bed made of straw or hay, used in medieval times.Close to the ground, it was generally a linen or some other material sheet stretched over some hay or straw.. The mattress might be called a palliasse, or sometimes pallet, based on the French word for straw: paille.
Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., now part of Tempur Sealy International, is a manufacturer and distributor of mattresses and pillows made from viscoelastic foam. The company is headquartered on the Coldstream Research Campus in Lexington, Kentucky, and has manufacturing plants in Duffield, Virginia, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] [2]