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- Hästens ABC Carpet & Home
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888 Broadway, at 19th St,; 212-473-3000, ext. 341
A high-end mattress is something like a bespoke suit: handmade from the best available materials and designed to last almost a lifetime. Hästens, the stuff of dreams, is a 150-year-old Swedish company that set up shop on the upper mezzanine level of ABC Carpet & Home last year. The mattresses here have no foam, rubber, or latex; they’re stuffed with horsehair, flax, and lamb’s wool, covered in hand-tufted cotton, and finished with a salt-based fire retardant. This makes for what the company calls a “cool, dry bed,” and what anyone who’s slept on one calls heaven. Pillow-top mattresses cost $420 and up; sets start at $2,900. Queen- and king-size mattresses are available for immediate delivery; custom-orders take about ten weeks.
Best Handmade Mattreses
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PrintFrom the 2003 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine
Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.
