British design studio Layer has aimed to bring sustainability to mattress design in a collaboration with Chinese start-up Mazzu, creating a modular, foamless product made up of textile-covered springs.
The Mazzu Open mattress was designed to have the comfort of a traditional sprung mattress while being adaptable, repairable and easy to pack down when moving house, so as to prolong the product's life.
The design features row upon row of individually textile-wrapped pocket springs, which sit sandwiched between a base "matrix" and a cushioned topper to hold them in place.
The Mazzu Open mattress is foamless and made up of modular, textile-covered springs
All its components are either recyclable or biodegradable, and no glue was used in the construction of the mattress. The structure ? left open at the sides for a distinctive, utilitarian look ? also has the benefit of being hygienic, according to the studio, as users can check the inside of the mattress and take it apart to clean every element.
The modular design of the mattress means buyers can treat the springs like "pixels", choosing between three levels of firmness for each point in the matrix to create a support pattern of their choosing. This also allows couples to customise their own side of the bed.
The springs are held in place by a grid layer
Additional spring modules and a different base and topper can be added to change the size of the mattress, and the whole kit can compress down to around 80 p...