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We spend much of our lives in beds. We obsess about our beds. Bed stores seem like they are in every strip center. Advertisements promise us a good night while peddling comfort zones or space age foams. Remarkably, even today what represents a bed differs greatly from culture to culture. The history of the bed, like most furniture, has been shaped by its complex development. It is, on the one hand, an essential item of furniture, but for different cultures it has varied as an important object of cultural value to simply a utilitarian furniture piece.