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28 sty 2024 · From beds for Roman newlyweds, to "hangover" benches for 19th-Century workers: the pursuit of a good night's sleep has followed us through the ages.
- The evolution of the modern bedroom
In a series looking at the evolution of the home, Jonathan...
- The evolution of the modern bedroom
22 lut 2024 · The oldest known mattress, discovered in South Africa, dates back 77,000 years. This ancient bedding, made from layers of reeds and rushes, signified a critical moment in the evolution of sleeping arrangements. As civilizations blossomed, so did the sophistication of beds. In ancient Egypt, the concept of raised beds emerged.
Fast forward to the middle of the 19th century and the invention of coil springs, used originally for chair seats, start to appear inside beds made out of the cast iron. The very first modern spring mattress was thought of and created by Heinrich Westphal in Germany in 1871.
3 lis 2017 · In a series looking at the evolution of the home, Jonathan Glancey explores the history of the bedroom. Sleeping arrangements today aren't too distant from those 77,000 years ago.
3 lis 2019 · Grass, hay and straw stuffed into sacks or cloth bags served as a scratchy mattress for centuries. But one thing that has changed is who has occupied the bed. For most of human history, people thought nothing of crowding family members or friends into the same bed.
12 mar 2019 · History of Sleep in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The 4000 years after the First Egyptian Dynasty saw technical advances in many areas of life, especially in Classical Greece and Rome, but few meaningful changes in the instruments of good sleep – beds and bedding.
24 paź 2019 · The first beds. The earliest known bed, made of woven weeds and rushes, was found in a 77,000-year-old cave in South Africa. “You’d think they would have been full of bugs, but people lined them and covered themselves with a bundle of grasses from the nearby river, which acted as insect repellent,” says Fagan, professor emeritus of ...
