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Vespero Bedstead
Vespero: a fixed bed base of flexible beech plywood slats with adjustable lower-back rigidity.
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Description
Overview
The Vespero is a fixed bed base made for Poltrona Frau mattresses. It adjusts rigidity under the lower back and gives high absorbency under the shoulders.
Construction
- Frame: panels of beech plywood with a varnished surface
- Slats: flexible beech plywood, steam-curved and steam-pressed, so that the mattress can always breathe
- Joints: plastic suspension joints
- Adjustment: the slat used for adjusting the rigidity is engraved with the settings
- Mark: the footboard-side end slat carries an engraved logo
Specifications
Fixed version, beech, natural finish. Matches all mattresses in the Poltrona Frau collection.
Story
An elastic base for rest
The right regulation of an elastic base determines how well a bed rests the sleeper, and the Vespero bed base is built around that adjustment. Under the lower back its rigidity can be set, with the settings engraved on the slat. Under the shoulders it offers high absorbency.
Slats that let the mattress breathe
Steam shapes the flexible beech plywood slats. They keep the mattress breathing at all times, and the end slat on the footboard side carries the engraved logo.
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