Dirty Furniture is the independent design magazine that uncovers the relationship between people and the things they live with. Conceived as a finite printed series of six and showcasing design’s best writers and emerging talents, each issue takes a piece of furniture as its theme and uses it as a springboard to explore topics spanning politics, design, history, technology, psychology, manufacturing, art – and the plain weird.
Dirty Furniture bids us goodnight in their sixth and final issue, aptly focusing on the bed. Partially inspired by Jonathan Crary’s essay 24/7, this final edition explores sleep as the final frontier kept safe from capitalism’s hustle and grind.
Manijeh Verghese investigates India’s unique legislated right to sleep while Ilona Gaynor considers the sleep science behind falling asleep to Netflix each night. The many other essays and features included in this issue are bookended by archival images of mattress adverts helping the reader feel tucked in for the full experience. Sweet dreams, Dirty Furniture.
Autumn 2023
208 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
