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"$44,000 for a king set, making it the most expensive American-made mattress available in the market today. Hand-sewn by skilled artisans using the finest materials such as cashmere, silk, exotic wools, horsehair, certified organic cotton and Talaly latex" . . source

Kluft website

A real bargain compared to the $90,000 Magniflex Platinum.

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sandman wrote:

Comparable.  What I liked about them compared to Hastens was (1) a latex topper doesn't need to be massaged, (2) I think I reacted badly to horsehair the one night I slept on a Hastens.

I fell dead asleep for over an hour in the Conneticut showroom on a Carpe Diem, and as you know from my posts here, I haven't had a lot of success with latex yet their latex topper was just fine - maybe something to do with the spring system underneath??.

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sandman, is there a Carpe Diem dealership in your area?  They basically have a spring system very similar to the Hastens (both Swedish companies) but use a Talalay latex topper instead of the horsehair/cotton. I liked them better than the Hastens but to import one into Canada was just out of the question for my budget.

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I came very close to buying a Hastens after trying them in a showroom for the better part of the day and loving them there.  But given I was looking at over $10,000 I decided to spend the money and fly to a city with a hotel that had one in one of their rooms.  Glad I did.  I did not sleep well.  I had to take the topper off part way through the night, my back was stiff in the morning, and I woke up congested.  The room didn't appear dusty (it was the Chicago Peninsula, no less, so doesn't get much more chic-chic than that!) so I had to assume that I was maybe sensitive to the horsehair - who knows.  All I can say is that I am glad I spent the $1000 that trip cost me to keep me from making a $10,000 mistake.  And just goes...

Yes, I think any wool pad compresses with time. Heck, even Hastens tells you to massage their expensive horsehair/wool toppers.   But the Dormier one is washable, so the washing and drying restores the loft.  With our non-washable Naturas I tried putting them in the dryer to restore loft but it never quite did the trick.  In fact, what my husband noticed was that the mattress was feeling firmer over time with the compressed Natura.  We got it before Natura came out with a washable one.  So, I'm not slagging Natura, I'm just suggesting whatever one chooses, choose washable.

Kimberly, I don't think budgy was suggesting the duvet go on top of the mattress (although I have used that trick to soften up our lake bed).  I think he meant if you already have a pad on the mattress that maybe re-evaluating what your daughter is sleeping under as a possible...

olenska wrote: