Hästens’ master craftsmen and their product developers have spent two years experimenting with different combinations of horsehair, cotton, flax and wool to find the perfect balance. The result is a bed which lifts your body and provides support, while allowing you to sink deep down and relax.
The bed is built entirely by hand, using proven techniques and the finest natural materials. No corners are cut when creating the Vividus. Hästens has created the very best bed, using the expertise it has gained from 150 years of making beds and generations of craftsmanship skills and attention to quality that have been handed down to Hästens’ bed makers over the years.
In manufacturing the Vividus. Hästens’ most experienced and skilled bed makers have employed craftsmanship techniques which have been used in Swedish furniture making since the 1850s. Many of these techniques fell into obscurity when industrialization ushered in the age of the machine. Hästens take the utmost care in creating the Vividus – each bed is made to order according to the customer’s specifications and takes between 140 and 160 hours to make.
Hästens Vividus is the pinnacle of 150 years of handmade craftsmanship. Hästens set out on a quest simply to build the most extremely perfected and luxurious bed in the world. They gathered the most valuable insights from their 150 years of expertise of handmade Craftsmanship, and sought out the world’s best knowledge of what creates comfort for the human body. Hästens then searched the planet for the very finest natural materials, and they put it all in the hands of Hästens most skilful and experienced craftsmen.
Everything should be done exclusively by hand using nothing but nature’s own materials. From this comprehensive process emerged Hästens Vividus. It is obviously a big investment. But price is one thing. Value is something else. And the fact that they can make this bed justifies every other bed we make. The knowledge gained by creating Vividus, has been built into all other Hästens beds.
