Publisher: Dirty Furniture, ISBN: 9780993351150, Format: Paperback, 13 x 20 cm, 208pp
Conceived as a finite printed series of six, each issue of Dirty Furniture takes a piece of furniture as its theme and uses it as a springboard to explore topics spanning politics, design, history, technology, psychology, manufacturing, art, and the plain weird. In this final issue, 'Bed', the magazine rips off the covers to reveal how the bed, sleep – or the lack of it – shapes our lives. The authors sleep with sleep-monitoring devices, reflect on the beds they were born in and consider the screen’s capacity to alleviate insomnia. They wonder how the duvet became a wardrobe staple, talk to sheep and study the architecture of dreams. The Bed issue has contributions by Oli Stratford, Formafantasma, Charles Holland, Philippa Snow, Pillow Culture, Catharine Rossi, Miguel Arjona, Anne Galloway, and many others.