The collectionPocket
Seven-zone pocket core, high-resilience comfort layer
A hundred and sixty millimetres of pocketed steel in seven zones, under fifty of high-resilience foam. Nothing in this bed is late.
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It has answered before the hand has left.
Press and hold
This is an elastic foam, and elastic means the load and the answer arrive together. Press, and the surface is where it is going to be before the hand has finished moving. Release, and it is back in under a tenth of a second: there is no number to count, and the absence of that number is the entire difference between this bed and a viscoelastic one. The energy goes in and comes back out. In memory foam, sixty-two per cent of it becomes heat instead.
Recovery
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| Stratum | Material | mm | kg/m³ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ticking | Knitted polyester jacquard, quilted | 14 | — |
| Bond line | Hot-melt adhesive | 1 | — |
| Support foam | High-resilience polyurethane | 50 | 35 |
| Spring unit | Pocketed steel · seven zones · 2.0 mm | 160 | — |
| Bond line | Hot-melt adhesive | 1 | — |
| Base felt | Needle-punched non-woven | 16 | — |
| Overall | 242 | — | |
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One thousand and eighty-eight answers, all of them immediate.
< 0.1 s
Under a tenth of a second, against six seconds for a viscoelastic core. Both figures are correct, and neither is better. They are answers to two different questions, and the only person who knows which question is being asked is the one lying down.
7 zones · 160 mm
One thousand and eighty-eight coils, 2.0 mm wire, seven zones from head to foot, each coil sewn into its own pocket. Steel is the only elastic element in a mattress that will cross thirty thousand cycles under a 140 kg roller and come back with its geometry intact.
2 × 1 mm
Two of them, one millimetre each: under the ticking, and under the spring unit. A mattress is sold on its foam and bought on its springs, and it lives or dies on the millimetre of hot melt that holds either of them to anything else. Thin, and it starves under load. Thick, and it becomes a plate.
It gives back everything it is given. That is what elastic means.