As readers may know, I’m not overly enamoured of the work of Philippe Starck but his Sleepy Working Bed for Cassina may be a watershed. Together with the Frenchman’s recent (somewhat surprising) pronouncements on design art, Starck’s no nonsense bed-cum-workstation has stuck in my mind since I stumbled on the design in the pages of WOI a few days back. My fascination will no doubt have something to do with my own penchant for working in bed late at night. But, personal habits aside, it surely remains that one of life’s luxuries has to be a boudoir big enough for the bed to sit slap bang in the middle.
