There Are No Cave Drawings of Mattresses
If you walked into a bedroom ten thousand years ago, you wouldn’t find a pillow-top, multi-layer, pocket-sprung mattress with cooling gel. You wouldn’t find a frame that lifts you three feet off the ground. You would likely find a flat, firm surface—perhaps covered with a thin mat of woven reeds or a animal hide. As […]
There Are No Cave Drawings of Pillows
In my book, There Are No Cave Drawings Of Chairs, I challenge the idea that modern furniture is a “necessity” for human comfort. We’ve explored how the chair has essentially “caged” our hips and weakened our spines. But there is another modern convenience—one we spend roughly a third of our lives utilizing—that deserves the same […]