Dirty Furniture #6: Bed closes out a landmark finite series by using the bed as a lens through which to examine sleep, intimacy, technology, and the architectures of rest — territory far stranger and more political than the object itself suggests.
About This Book
The sixth and final issue of Dirty Furniture completes a printed series that treated everyday furniture as serious cultural subject matter. Where earlier issues examined chairs, tables, and phones, this concluding volume turns to the bed — and finds it dense with meaning. Contributors investigate how sleep, or its persistent absence, structures modern life; how the duvet migrated from bedroom to wardrobe; how screens have become insomnia's unlikely companion. The result is a magazine that operates simultaneously as design criticism, cultural history, and essay collection, drawing together voices from across architecture, art, and the social sciences to make the familiar deeply strange again.
Key Features
- 208 pages of essays, criticism, and illustrated editorial content across design, politics, technology, psychology, and art
- Contributions by Oli Stratford, Formafantasma, Charles Holland, Philippa Snow, Pillow Culture, Catharine Rossi, Miguel Arjona, and Anne Galloway, among others
- Published by Dirty Furniture, ISBN 9780993351150
What You'll Discover
- How sleep-monitoring devices have transformed the bed into a site of data collection and self-surveillance
- The cultural history of the duvet and its unexpected journey from bedding to fashion staple
- First-person reflections on the beds we are born in, and what those origins carry forward
- An architectural reading of dreams, alongside an inquiry into how screens reshape the boundaries of night and day
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 13 x 20 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780993351150
- Publisher: Dirty Furniture
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, architects, and cultural theorists drawn to object-led criticism; readers interested in design history, sleep science, and the politics of everyday life; collectors of the complete Dirty Furniture series.