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MAYAS BED

date: 2008
type: bed
material: wood
size: 250 x 250 x 200 cm
design: Thomas Feichtner
producer: Holzwerkstatt Rehberger
one-off piece

A bed is normally a very personal place, but located in a gallery as a part of the Pixel Hotel it is also a showpiece, of course. Therefore the bed has a sculptural character. One sleeps not near the ground but raised one meter above it and slightly hidden behind three back rests. One may retreat into it like a child into a tree house. Thomas Feichtner describes the bed as a flower with petals and draws parallels to the children’s TV series “Maya the Bee“ from his childhood years, the seventies. In the animated TV series Maya the Bee curls up in a blossom to sleep. This was the most beautiful and quietest place Thomas Feichtner could imagine in those days. Therefore the bed was named Maya’s Bed.