Moulded in steam, finished by hand

Six steps turn the latex of the rubber tree into one moulded block. Everything after that is done by hand, in our workshop in Bangkok.

A forearm and a hand drawing a line with a marker along a wooden rule laid across a block of perforated latex, a tape measure lying on the block, white cotton covers behind. — Marking a block of latex at the work table.

In a factory in Bangkok, the latex becomes foam

An old colour print: Dominique Bienfait in a white shirt walks down an aisle between tall stacks of latex in a large factory hall. — An old print: Dominique Bienfait in a latex factory hall.

Concentrated

First, about forty percent of its water is taken out.

Aged

We use the latex at about two months old. Younger, it reacts too fast to control; after four to six months it spoils, and the foam would smell, bubble and yellow.

Matured

Once mixed, it rests for about fifteen hours, until it is perfectly even.

An old colour print: a man in a white shirt and a black apron leans over a steel bowl in which two cage whisks beat white latex, under the cream housing of a foaming machine. — An old print: the whisks of a foaming machine.

Beaten with air

A machine whips it the way egg whites are whipped, one volume of latex to seven of air. More air gives a lower density, less air a higher one.

Moulded

The foam is poured into the moulds and steamed for forty-five minutes.

An old colour print: the lid of a mould, covered in rows of long pins, lifted on a hoist while four workers ease a white latex core out from under it, Dominique Bienfait watching from the left. — An old print: a core lifted out of its mould.

A perforated block of cream latex passing under a curtain of water jets. — A block under the jets of water.

Washed and dried

Out of the mould, each block is washed three times in a wringer with clean water, then dried with hot air.

Cut, sewn and finished by hand

Each block comes straight from the factory to us, with no one in between. Here we make the inner and outer covers and finish every mattress, under the direction of Dominique Bienfait.

Two hands guiding a quilted cover with dark piping under the needle of an old black Bernina sewing machine. — Hands at the Bernina.

Two hands holding a woven label flat under the foot of a sewing machine, on white knitted cloth. — Sewing on a label.

Two hands feeding the folded edge of a white knitted panel under the needle of a sewing machine, a pair of thread snips on the table. — A seam, guided under the needle.

The same hands make the sizes no chart holds, from your measurements: “round, square, L-shaped, boat-sized”.Ask for another size

All four depths are made this way

The same latex and the same seven zones in Le Classique 15 cm, L’Excellence 20 cm, L’Élite 25 cm and Le Master Luxe 30 cm. At the foot of each, a black fleur-de-lis and Dominique Bienfait’s handwritten name.

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