Our mattresses are hand-made to order in-house in our Southern California production facility and made almost exclusively from US-produced components. 

One important exception are our patented innersprings. Those are made for us in Germany. Why? Because much like German cars, beer and bread, injections molded products are also something Germany is world renowned for.

It usually takes seven to ten days to make one of the mattresses from our standard product list. And when they are ready, we never ship them full-size and never compressed.

Excellent question! People often assume that we use the softer springs in our regular mattress and the firmer ones to make firmer beds.  That’s actually not the case. All of our mattresses take advantage of both spring types to offer softer comfort for the shoulders and more active support for the lumbar spine.  So inside all of our mattress you will find a combination of our firmer dark blue and softer lighter blue springs.

The firmness of our mattresses is determined by the firmness of the foam we use in the 2″ resting layer atop and below our springs, with the firm being the firmest, followed by the regular and then the latex.

If you have tried them all but would like softer or firmer support, please let us know and we will happily customize your mattress at no extra charge.  

Did you notice how none of our mattresses are called soft or extra soft? It’s because we believe, active support is essential for a good night’s rest. Both of our original Somnium mattresses — the firm and the regular — are on the supportive side by design. However, a mattress  should also be soft enough for you to sink and allow your lumbar spine to make contact with the bed, rather than being unsupported.

Generally speaking, if you are lightweight or switching from a pillow-top bed, our regular mattress is probably the best choice for you; if you are of average weight, very active or have always longed for firm support, we recommend our firm model.

If you like your mattress a bit more plush, without foregoing support, the new Somnium Latex is a good option. Alternatively, you can also “graduate” to more ergonomic  support by topping one of our original firmnesses with our plush latex topper and either keeping or later removing it. The latter is also a good option for customers who need a softer sleep environment at times, due to medical conditions like migraines or fibromyalgia or other body aches.

If you don’t have any of our showrooms nearby to try our different options, please contact us and we will help you make the most comfortable choice.

The standard profile height of our mattresses is 8 inches or 20 cm. Since we can customize every aspect, please let us know if you require or desire a different thickness and we can customize it for you. 

Everyone – even people without sleep problems – sleeps better on a new, medium firm mattress. That, in a nutshell is what a study at the University of Oklahoma revealed a few years back.  And while we offer a ten-year warranty for our mattress, consider the following mattress math: 

Sleeping an average of eight hours per night, has you using your mattress 29,200 over the course of ten years, 20,440 over seven years and even 14,600 in five.

Driving a car at only 20 miles per hour for 29,200 hours, would have to travel a distance of 584,000 miles.

Watching TV for three hours a day makes you use the same TV for 9,733 days or roughly 26.6 years to get to the same amount of hours.

And if you wear those new heels for 12 hours at a time, you’d have to wear them 2,430 times to use the 29,200 hours.

None of these items will perform as good as new after such a long run. Why expect it of your mattress? Do yourself the favor and replace it every five to seven years, if you can.  

It’s scary but true: Federal standards require that all mattresses sold in the US can withstand the flame of a Bunsen burner for 70 seconds without bursting into flames. How manufactures achieve that task is pretty much up them — and chemical flame retardants remain a popular solution.

Let’s start with a quick look at those chemicals: Countless studies conducted in Europe and the U.S. discovered that PBDE, a flame retardant found in products ranging from mattresses to dashboard and computer housing to toaster has devastating effects on consumers’ health.  Exposure to these polybrominated diphenyl ethers can disrupt the thyroid hormone balanced cause harm to the developing brain. Other effects that have been cited include hyperactivity, hearing los and even cancer. And harmful as it is to people, it is also bio-accumulative and toxic to the environment.

Obviously, we wanted none of that anywhere near our mattresses. That’s why we decided to make fire-safety truly safe by starting with inherently flame resistant materials when we designed our mattresses, using rayon in our covers and specialty highly-resilient foam for our cores, instead of flammable cotton and traditional bedding foam.  Rayon, for example, chars, which is allowed in the Federal test, while cotton burns. 

This approach is as simple as it is savvy: Since these materials offer fire safety on a molecular level –  — it will never wear off, rub off, wash off or make you sneeze.

As added protection, we use a light, knitted barrier sock between our foam and the removable covers. It does double duty by also protecting the foam and making it easier to handle once a cover is removed for washing. 

Sleeping is actually pretty dirty business: We lose about a pint of moisture every night while we sleep. Two thirds of that evaporate with our breath; the other third stays behind in the sleep environment and, unfortunately, becomes a prime food source for dust mites that, in turn, can cause allergies. .

We found an easy way to keep things pristine: Removable and washable covers that can easily be cleaned in a home washing machine and, ideally, line-dried. 

For ease of use our covers zip apart into two halves. Always remove, wash and replace the top half, then flip the mattress and repeat on the other side. It’s much easier than removing and replacing the whole cover at once.

It’s not even a fair fight:  Dual-sided mattresses offer twice the amount of sleep surface — one on the top and the bottom —  and flipping the mattress to alternate between them increases the longevity and keeps you comfortable longer. 

You should flip your Somnium once a quarter and alternate between head-over-foot with side-over-side flips. 

Single-sided mattresses only allow you to rotate them on in the same plane around their own axis and always leave you sleeping with the heaviest part of your body — the hips — in the same location. 

Not yet. We are working on it! Please feel free to reach out to us with questions.