A Waterbedtime Story™ by Irvin Saathoff Having had the good fortune of traveling worldwide doing business with waterbed designers, manufacturers, and retailers around the globe, it has been interesting to see how the waterbed industry evolved uniquely in different countries and especially interesting to see how the market has survived and thrived in a number […]
A Waterbedtime Story™ by Irvin Saathoff For some of us who grew up in the pop culture which evolved over the latter half of the 20th century, the mention of sensory attenuation or sensory deprivation might conjure up images of the 1980 horror movie “Altered States”. And while mid-century experiments involved extreme sensory deprivation (i.e. […]
A Waterbedtime Story™ by Irvin Saathoff Back in the 2010’s a longtime friend of mine from the German waterbed industry contacted me with an unusual request. The Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main was needing to replace the waterbed in a Thom Merrick sculpture they had had on display since 1988. So, as […]
A Waterbedtime Story™ by Irvin Saathoff Swept up in the popularity wave of the 1970’s and working for a waterbed shop to supplement my starving design student lifestyle, but being raised with a mid-western show-me state of mind, it took me a minute to buy into the logic of fluid suspension sleep. And though having […]
