ZIP BED

Italian furniture company, Florida Smart Italian Design, has designed a bed for the slacker crowd. The Zip Bed is as its name suggests: a bed with a zipper! The zipper runs along the entire top edge of the bed. When unzipped, the removable piece can act as a comforter if needed. Beneath the attachable comforter is a bed as we all know it. Linens, pillows and a queen sized mattress. On the outside, the bed frame appears to have a rounded, futuristic aesthetic created by the padding ensconcing it. This bed allows its user maintain a tidy bedroom without tucking sheets and fluffing pillows after a night's sleep. Instead, all one has to do is throw the zippable comforter over top and pull the zipper across the bed's perimeter. 

The bed comes in limited colors and there are no options for patterns. If changing up the look of the bed is important to the buyer, this is probably not the right fit for them. However, the bed itself is an interesting design and might be enough for some to overlook that aspect of it. The concept may have been developed with efficiency more prominently in mind. That being said, the look of the bed was not thrown to the wind. The interior of the comforter comes in contrasting colors to add a bit of pop.

Its design is reminiscent of older sci-fi films that depicted furniture and clothing as very streamlined and no frills in a society where productivity is valued above individuality. Being that we are not living in such a society, this bed does stand out for its uniqueness. It almost seems like a bonus that it does a fine job of concealing that we hate making our beds.