The average person spends about a third of their life in bed, but in discussions of history we seldom ever mention sleeping (unless, perhaps, someone had the misfortune to be murdered while doing it) and even more infrequently mention the place where the sleeping happens. For reasons both illicit and practical, I've always found the bed to be the most interesting of furniture pieces, and yet it is missing from most of history (and from the history of design as well, since a bed turns out to be harder to innovate than a chair or a table). So to satisfy my own curiosity (and perhaps yours) about where our forebears slept, I decided to embark on a little research about the history of the bed.
from Apartment Therapy | Saving the world, one room at a time http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/a-brief-history-of-the-bed-240124
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