Sleep With Us

"It is possible that the world today is that way: without sleeping.“

-J.-L. Nancy "The Fall of Sleep“

Sleeping has turned into a secret cultural practice. The modified mind-set of the information age has banned sleep to night-time and made it lose its purely sensual qualities. Sleep is only tolerated where it promises an increase in efficiency and where it seems absolutely indispensable. Its creative power has almost fallen into oblivion.

SLEEP WITH US is an homage to the creative power of public sleep. In their work the designers of Studio Blond & Bieber try to abolish the strict dualism of sleeping and working - passivity and activity - productivity and unproductivity, in order to find a place for sleep in design anew. SLEEP WITH US is an invitation to worship sleep and make space for it in everyday‘s social life.

In cooperation with the German research institute Schlafakademie Berlin the studio developed a backback-bed for sleeping in public, along with a sleep light which responds to the sensoric wool integrated in the mobile bed and woolen blanket that mirrors the chronic of our own individual temporary sleep.