Why do beds have to be round or rectilinear? Why not a pentagon, hexagon, or octagon? Why not an oval, or an egg's silhouette? Why not some assymetrical shape? Why not one side larger for the taller person and one side shorter for the shorter person? Why not a single bed shaped like two symmetrical fetal positions back to back? With tempurpedic style foam, beds could be cast in almost any shape, I suppose.
And why do all the sides have to be perfectly flat and vertical? Why can't we have kind of a Bilbao with a flat top?
Frank Gehry, please make a bed!
Seriously, are there reasons for the square bed? And no fair saying because sheets only come in circles or squares. Let's assume, hypothetically, you can get the right sheets. My hunches:
1.) it has to do with 18th or 19th Century manufacturing constraints, which have become inertial; or
2.) rooms are rectalinear and there is something aesthetically harmonious about matching a rectilinear bed with a rectilinear room, and that has become inertial (round beds being an inexplicable outlier 🙂 ).
Thoughts?
Or...
maybe one side could have a sort of ejector/ flipper thing so the "owner" or "person who owns the house that the flippee has visited" can be easily got rid off next morning, having positioned the flipping side near an accomodating window overlooking the crocodile pool of course. I have never slept/not slept! in a round bed, but would of course give it a whirl.
There really is something...
There really is something "safe" in the square/rectangle, beside the obvious ease of fit/accomodation.
The Saarinen designed pit at Vassar, although beautiful, still looks to me to this day as if it is going to launch itself into the stratospehere at any moment. And the round bed, enough said, I'm at that age where I need to get more rest.
Vivienne
There is a film 'el lado oscuro del corazon' ('dark side of the heart'), wich has exaclty the bed you are talking about.
But instead of jumping up, he/she goes down (maybe to a hole in the earth).
It works with a button besides the bed.
And in this case, the owner of the bed don,t need wait to the next morning.
the disposal bed
ha ha ha
the film:www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/d/dark-side-of-the-heart.shtml
(I hope the link works)
Now I remember, after reading the reviews, that the bed worked atomatically
The bed autodetected the undesirable fellow (in this case the ones that coudn't 'fly'), no needed to push anything.
I am still thinking about it....
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Heart-Sandra-Ballesteros/dp/B00008O34X
Thanks Gustavo..
You are not of course the Gustavo in the synopsis are you?..I like the trap door thing, and as i have a platform bed approx six feet high i am sure the little man down the road could "Fix" it for me!. I found i was identifying with this film and now in my mind i am a street whore and a prostitute (the taunts were true then) added to which i cannot fly either. I also like the nine foot plaster penis, i have always thought that size does indeed matter... but maybe not that much!.Im going to search for the film. Thanks.
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