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Earl asked
30th October 2013

Hi there, This was brought to my attention today by our customer service dept. Are you aware we are now partners with Vi Spring?

Or is this just a coincidence?

I noticed you compare your mattress to them I have never seen your factory so have no way to compare, but I have seen VI and many of the blends and coil tensions including vanadium steel, are very special with proprietary designs and components not available to any other mattress manufactures. The quality and attention to detail is peerless. Anyway… to help you with the process of dissection, our coil system is a hand stitched Calico 2000. the cotton is certified pure organic staple cotton, all the latex (including layer 3 which is not reg foam as you state) is talalay, made in the USA. There are several different firmness of latex in this bed not necessarily in the order one would think.There are over 20 pounds of New Zealand JOMA wool with some cashmere and other exotic natural fibers blended in the top layer. the single layer of convoluted foam for airflow is BIOfoam. I have been in the mattress business over 50 years and my family 100 just like Vi Spring, it took us 2 years to get this build ready for market based on trial and error until we got it absolutely perfect, and we have been extremely successful with it at Bloomingdales Department Store. As with the latex firmnesses, the wool and cotton are where they are for several reasons. I do not believe in the progressive firmness theory as a catch all, although for some beds it works the best. UK has some very unusual Fire retardant laws or this product would already be there. Not to say it is not FR… This product has passed the US 30 minute open flame test. EARL KLUFT. >

1 Answer
Lee Staff
answered 10 years ago

Hi Earl.

Such a great pleasure to have you add your own personal comment to the site.

We are indeed aware of your partnership with VS and of course aware of your own history and placement within the luxury beds market.

Our comments above are in no way to be taken as negative or derogatory but as a source of discussion of this particular construction method.

In the UK there is absolutely nothing available that has a similar style of construction to The Palais Royale, and it was precisely this that piqued our interest.

Apology for assuming layer three was foam – we do not hold any specific literature on this model and was all pretty much done on guesswork.

I am intrigued by the composition of the latex – which as you point out are of different densities ‘not in the order one would think’.

My thoughts would be that the softest densities would be within the higher levels of the mattress – if this is not the case I would be incredibly obliged for a more thorough explanatory dissection.

The use of natural fiber cushioning the latex layers is genius, and I am surprised none of the top five latex mattress specialists in this country have cottoned on to this method of construction.

I hope you will be able to give a fuller account of the hows and whys of this particular method – I’m sure the two years R+D gave a particular insight of what the best combinations of fiber and latex densities were.

Finally Earl, I am especially intrigued by your views of Progressive Firmness and welcome you to provide your own personal thoughts on this subject.

Kindest and sincere regards, John and Ryan.

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