Is Auping the best ventilating bed?

Everyone knows Auping. The Dutch family business since 1898 known for the spiral bases that ventilated much better than other bed bases and thus ensured good hygiene. Even now, the spiral base is the most commonly used in Auping beds. But is Auping anno nowadays still the best ventilating bed? Let's put Auping's top model, the Auping Kiruna, next to a premium mattress from Harrison Spinks, a renowned mattress manufacturer from England of the same size. And the company behind the exclusive line of Bröring Natural mattresses. Two companies with very different views should yield fun conclusions!

Conclusion:

Auping and Harrison Spinks are both brands with wonderful reputations "There is no such thing as a standard bed" is a quote from Harrison Spinks, who also values Auping highly. So a good night's sleep requires customization. Both brands succeed in this. Yet the brands interpret it differently. Those who like to sleep on a well-known bed brand (with smart accessories) choose an Auping bed. The time-honored coil base still comes along well even in this day and age and ventilates well. Strange is the use of synthetic materials in the mattresses, some of which negate this effect and make recycling difficult. Harrison Spinks stays true to its principles by using only natural materials. The mattresses also have a different grandeur and feel more refined than Auping beds. Harrison Spinks also does better in terms of recycling, with no synthetic residual waste. Prices and warranties are comparable. And the Auping claim: no bed ventilates better? That one goes to Harrison Spinks (Bröring Natural) in this comparison.

Auping and Harrison Spinks: similarities and differences

Auping

Auping is a renowned brand that is best known for its coil base. An Auping bed could be found in many Dutch bedrooms, often adjustable with the famous ball on the string. But Auping is much more than a coil: the brand says it believes in natural materials and in the importance of recycling old mattresses. And tells that to the world. Auping has thus truly become a consumer brand. Good marketing has given the brand a high profile and good image, which means that many people already walk into the store with an Auping question. For a long time, Auping remained a family business, which is known to always outperform other companies. Smart is also the development of original and personalized accessories, such as a headboard and leg covers in various colors and fabrics, matching bedside tables and dimmable reading covers and light under the bed via a sensor. In short, a brand we Dutch can be proud of. 

Harrison Spinks

Where Auping is typically Dutch, Harrison Spinks isvery British. The company has a fine, almost stately history since 1840 and has been royally awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise several times in the personal presence of "The Queen. By the way, don't forget that Queen Wilhelmina also ordered a pair of beds from Auping just before World War I. What is special about Harrison Spinks is that the company has been following the same philosophy for five generations: using only natural materials and continuing to innovate. Ludicrous is the way they emphasize the natural: Our mattresses don't start life in a factory, but on a 300-acre farm in North Yorkshire. This also makes recycling, an important issue anno now, possible, and the company has already been rewarded with a sustainability award. Harrison Spinks is still a family business and has more than 90 percent of its production in-house. From raising sheep (for wool), growing hemp and flax crops on their own farm, to cutting down their own forest and designing and producing their own pocket springs. Even the tickings they weave themselves. This is absolutely unique and shows that they want to eliminate any quality risk. I know of no other bed manufacturer that does it this way. This also results in a seven-year warranty on everything. Harrison Spinks delivers worldwide but is by no means known everywhere. In the Netherlands, they are supplied under the name Bröring Natural. It is typically a brand that focuses on their passion: making the best mattresses with natural materials, innovative pocket springs and handmade production. As masters of craft. The customers will naturally follow. 

Auping Kiruna: top model from Auping

Enough about the companies, let's look at the mattresses. For that, we'll take Auping's top model: the Kiruna. A bed in the price range 7,000 and 15,000 euros (double bed). As standard, the Auping Kiruna bed has a steel support (frame) with spiral base, with a comfort zone at shoulder height. The spiral base (with mattress) thus optimally follows the contours of your body. This ensures comfortable and healthy sleeping. A clever detail is that the bed remembers your best sleeping and sitting position. 

 

Auping and ventilation

The biggest sleep disturbance is sleep climate (52%) and ventilation plays a leading role in this. 'No bed ventilates better,' claims Auping and thus seems to be in a strong position here. Especially for the top model: the Auping Kiruna. Indeed, the open structure of the spiral base lets a lot of air through. But what does the Auping mattress do? Auping has different types of mattresses, including pocket spring mattresses, in different firmnesses and comfort zones. You can have multiple comfort zones that are tailored to your body. Auping does this with latex comfort layers and, in the case of the more expensive mattresses, in various compositions of synthetic materials and foam rubber. For the other materials, natural materials (wool or cotton) are chosen as much as possible, but also tencel and viscose. Surprisingly, there are plastic bags around the springs. Because if you are fully committed to ventilation and have a very well ventilating bottom bed, you partly destroy that with the use of synthetic, not natural materials. Some of those materials do ventilate but still fall short of the pleasant properties of natural materials such as wool and cotton. Moreover, they are more likely to cause allergic reactions and, partly because of the glued layers, they are more difficult to recycle. No bed ventilates better seems to refer mainly to the spiral base and somewhat less to the mattress.

Harrison Spinks: the Bröring Natural Collection 

Harrison Spinks delivers in the Netherlands exclusively under the name Bröring Natural, in the price range from 4,000 euros to 10,000 euros (double bed). The lower bed is a solid and beautifully finished box spring with wooden frame, pocket springs and a top layer of micro pocket bears. Only natural materials are used. The mattresses are pocket spring mattresses also composed of refined and completely natural materials. Important because this guarantees good ventilation and allows for complete recycling. Globally unique is their 4K spring technology, with layers of thousands of HD micro-pocket springs made of ultra-thin British steel turned by Harrison Spinks himself, which optimally ventilate and support your body to perfection. The natural filling materials are also homegrown, and the craftsmanship can be felt in the handmade mattresses. The latest development from Harrison Spinks are zoned HD micro-pocket spring mattresses, which provide extra support where it is desired. Truly an innovative development that takes ergonomics to an (even) higher level.

Harrison Spinks and ventilation

Mattresses from Harrison Spinks, or the Bröring Natural, ventilate well. Very well, in fact. The thousands of pocket springs breathe naturally with every movement and are not smothered by synthetic encasings. In these mattresses you will also find no warm comfort layers of Latex, Latex Perfo, Latex Pura or Visco Activ foam but these have been replaced by materials such as cotton, hemp, flax and horsehair. With these, temperature and moisture are much better regulated and the mattress is less likely to become static. Recycling also eliminates the need to separate synthetic materials. A big advantage because these are often difficult to dispose of. 

Freshbed: the superlative

Sleeping well is above all about an ideal sleeping climate. Those who want to control that completely choose a Freshbed: the first bed in the world with its own climate control. The first Freshbeds can already be found in a number of top international hotels, with rave reviews from guests. It is an extremely comfortable bed in which you perspire less, which never feels clammy and in which mold, fine dust, pollen and house dust mites are kept at bay. Precisely because a Freshbed can handle moisture much better, it also lasts much longer. Read more