Find a sprung or pocket sprung mattress A sprung or pocket sprung mattress offers great support by distributing your body weight evenly. You won’t feel too warm either, as the open spring construction allows air to circulate. To find your perfect comfort level, choose a firm or medium-firm mattress, paired with a slatted bed base or mattress base. Sprung mattresses are very hardwearing – they even come with a 25 year guarantee. You also have 90 days to try it: love it or exchange it for another one. Whether you’d like yours memory foam or pocket sprung, we have mattresses to suit every sleeper. Each mattress is guaranteed for a year, or five years if they’re purchased with one of our bed frames, so you can sleep easy with quality comfort and reassurance. Silentnight Firm Comfort Mattress The Firm Comfort features Silentnight’s unique support system with 750 Miracoil springs offering zoned support for perfect spinal alignment. Sealy Alderley Backcare Mattress
Marlow Backcare Comfort Mattress Silentnight Miracoil Elite Mattress Silentnight Miracoil Divine Mattress Silentnight Mirapocket Elegant Mattress Tempur Original Ultra 21 Mattress Tempur Cloud Sublime 25 Mattress Tempur Hybrid Ultra Mattress iGel Pegasus Mattress Platinum iGel Orion Mattress Platinum iGel Virgo Mattress PlatinumIt keeps us healthy and makes us happy. Sleep is special so we don’t think it should come off the shelf – we think it should be tailored to you. That’s why, at Harrison, we make hand-made pocket sprung mattresses and beds – offering a great night’s sleep. Our Beds & Mattresses Our luxury beds and mattresses are made with the finest natural materials and ground-breaking spring technology. It’s the perfect recipe for a truly indulgent night’s sleep. At Harrison we have over 100 years’ experience in bed making. Combining traditional craftsmanship with the most innovative spring technology, a Harrison bed is a tailored sleeping experience that is second to none.
We’re so passionate about what we do that we’d love to share our experience with you. If you read our blog, you’ll find a whole host of information on the world of beds and mattresses.Royal Warrant holders Hypnos make ‘the most comfortable beds in the world’. Their bespoke pocket sprung beds are hand crafted by master craftsmen. With a Hypnos bed you are guaranteed superior quality and tailoring and an exceptional level of comfort for a deeply relaxing and rejuvenating night’s sleep. From family run British business Hypnos, award winning bespoke divans, mattresses and headboards, each with a 10 year guarantee. Hypnos have over 100 years’ of bed making experience and sleep insight. Sleep better, enjoy life more. Revive Ortho Wool Divan Helping customers to sleep better and enjoy life more. Each handmade bed comes with the assurance of a 10 year guarantee. Hypnos, a fifth generation family-run British company, has been designing and making luxury beds and mattresses since the reign of King Edward VII.
Today, these bespoke beds and mattresses remain lovingly and authentically handmade in Hypnos' Carbon Neutral workshops in Buckinghamshire. Since the Edwardian era, Hypnos have been crafting wonderfully luxurious beds built with your great night’s sleep in mind. Their knowledge and insight comes from over 100 years’ experience in the industry, so you can be rest assured you are adding an expertly made bed into your home. Fulfil your dreams with a deluxe king size Hypnos divan bed with optional storage drawers and a gorgeous upholstered headboard complete with a pocket sprung mattress. The quality is evident in every detail right down to the headboard buttoning and mattress hand side stitching, so you’re sure to find the perfect match for you in both design and style. No matter the size, whether it is a single, double or super king, our specially handcrafted Hypnos mattresses are a great place to start your search for the best night’s sleep. Master crafted and upholstered with the finest Belgian damask fabric, discover one to suit your taste today.
You were probably conceived on one and you’ll probably die on one. You spend nearly 3,000 hours a year sleeping in one. It’s where you spend the most time with your partner, and where you first bond with your children. Hundreds of thousands of people are injured by them each year. In short, there aren’t many things in your home more important than your bed. Which makes it all the stranger that most of us give them so little thought. For many, a mattress comes a long way down the list of domestic priorities. But it has been estimated that a quarter of the British population suffers from sleep disruption, and often a bad mattress is at the root of this problem. The wrong sort of sleep can also cause cricked necks and bad backs – not to mention domestic tension. David Villaverde knows this better than most. As a furniture specialist at John Lewis on Oxford Street in central London, he spends his days showing people how to get a good night’s sleep. As I sprawl out over his show beds in the middle of the day, he takes me through the bed basics.
“The first thing I tell people is to slow down,” he explains. “Most want to get it over with in five minutes. It’s such an important item – you might as well take the time to get it right.” David says that you should spend around 45 minutes choosing, and lie on each mattress you’re interested in for at least 10 minutes. First I try the glossy newcomer to the market, the Tempur mattress. I say “newcomer”, but it’s a relative term for a product that has been around for 20 years. The beds world, you may not be surprised to hear, is a relatively slow-moving industry. The Tempur mattress is made from “memory foam”, derived from a material initially developed by Nasa to cushion astronauts against extreme g-forces. They have become hot property in the past few years. It’s easy to see why. As I lie on it, each bit of my body is absorbed and supported just as much as it needs to be. If you are used to a firmer mattress, you might find it a bit too squishy, but I think it’s great.
It’s like lying on an enormous marshmallow. Next up are two more traditional models. Jensen, the Norwegian company, is widely seen as the market leader in pocket-sprung mattresses. This is the classic design, in which the stuffing is held in place by togs. I test an “Ophelia” model. I ask if the name means that purchasers sleep in it alone and cry a lot. David doesn’t think so, and as I lie on this two metre-wide monster of comfort, I’m rather inclined to agree with him. In the middle of the department store, I have a sudden sensation of being in a five-star hotel. A Jensen bed comes in three parts – the base unit, the mattress and the topper. They work together to provide the right resistance. The mattresses are “zoned” so that they’re firmer in some parts than others. “Your bottom and your shoulders stick out more than other parts of your body,” says David. If your partner prefers a firmer mattress, or is much heavier than you are, you can even have different levels of tension on your respective sides of the bed.
The final bed I test is from the hand-sprung Vi-Spring range, “the Rolls-Royce of mattresses”, as David explains. This venerable British brand, founded in 1901, is the leading “hand-sprung” model. These mattresses are hand made, and filled with a mixture of lamb’s wool, silk and mohair (the Jensen uses a blend of natural and man-made fibres). This makes the mattress more breathable. “People sweat on average between half a pint and a pint while they sleep,” explains David. Like good sportswear, a mattress must be breathable, to let out all that excess body heat. Poor breathability is often the cause of heat itches, which can seriously disrupt sleep. I certainly don’t think I’d be disrupted on this particular bed. I feel as if I should be eating grapes, and ordering soldiers into battle far away. None of this technology, care and quality comes cheap. A top-of-the-range Jensen will set you back almost as much as a small car. Unless you’re a serious art collector, or have a loo seat made out of gold, your bed can easily be the most expensive thing you own.
“It’s an investment,” says David. “And though they’re all covered by warranties, I’d say 99 per cent of the people who take the time to buy one of these beds are satisfied.” Compared with the tetanus-threatening, mite-ridden, prison-style bunk I usually make do with, all of these beds seemed excellent. I understood Heidi’s joy when she goes to Frankfurt and learns that it’s possible to have more than one pillow. I could have slept the day away on any of them. But forced to choose, I’d go for a Vi-Spring. British beds for weary British heads. The Tempur original, without a frame, starts at £1,500 for a double and goes up to £2,175 for a king-size “Sensation” Prices for a Vi-Spring go from £1,000 for a mattress up to £5,000 for a set Jensen mattresses start at £1,950 and go up to £4,050 for an Ophelia bed and mattress set Five tips for choosing a new bed 1 Take your time You’re going to spend many hours sleeping on your new mattress, so make sure it feels comfortable.