Futons & Why Organic Matters

Folding Space

Folded or curved space is the way that science-fiction characters like Data and Jean Luc Picard travel from one galaxy to another so quickly without aging a day. According to Wikipedia, and I paraphrase: Anti-mimesis is a philosophical point-of-view that is diametrically opposed to Aristotle’s mimesis. One of its proponent opponents is Oscar Wilde, who claimed in opined in his essay The Decay of Lying (1889) that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life". (Stephen Hawking explained it better than I ever could in one of his many lectures).

Futons operate in much the same way. All you need to do is roll them up or fold them in half, and they can fly from the bedframe and into a storage closet in merely seconds. And if they’re made from organically grown resources, then they put up even less resistance along their merry way. And it’s the same way with the bed-frames that support organic futons. They, too, can fold space, so to speak, and move quickly from one galactic room to another in a matter of seconds. With conventional beds, you have move a stiff box-spring that doesn’t bend and maneuver it around corners and try not to chip paint off of door-frames or poke a hole in the wall. Then, you have to move a spring mattress that bends but doesn’t fold and certainly doesn’t roll up. Then, you need to find an adjustable crescent wrench to take it apart the bedframes in four places. In other blunt words, you have to move three pieces instead of two, and each piece is stubbornly incorrigible about moving, to say the least. Futons and their bed-frame mates are so much more flexible and agreeable, and they don’t suffer from claustrophobia if you leave them in the closet too long; they acquire grace and dignity with age like organic wine and raw-milk cheese.

Warping Time

Since the Japanese invented futons many centuries ago, they have evolved a great deal. For example, in1982, a Cambridge woodworker, by the name of William Brouwer, invented the first futon sofa-bed-frame. Since then, the futon has mutated again, this time into a hybrid consisting of four layers of untreated, unadulterated renewable resources: 1) a core made of natural latex (culled from an exotic rubber tree), a second layer made of natural cotton, a third layer made of natural wool, and a mattress cover also made of natural cotton for good measure. These natural materials don’t off-gas toxic chemicals into bedrooms or other rooms the way that synthetic-based foams used with most futons off-gas. Even some mattresses that appear on the surface to be 100% latex are actually a combination of natural latex and artificial foam ultimately produced from petroleum the same way that plastic is made from oil. So, if you want to sleep peacefully at night, both physically and conscientiously, then consider purchasing a naturally advanced hybrid futon.

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