EditorialA suite, which comes with two seats that fold into a flat bed that has a foam mattress, sheet, pillow and plush blanket, on the Napaway sleeper coach during an overnight trip from Washington, D.C., to Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 15, 2022. (Kenny Holston/The New
EditorialWorkers at the mattress maker Matro Luxe, whose owner moved over half of the company?s equipment from factories in the east, on the outskirts of Lviv, in western Ukraine, May 30, 2022. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers at A.H. Beard, a 123-year-old, family-owned mattress manufacturer in Padstow, Australia, on July 21, 2022. The company sells many of its high-end mattresses in China. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers at A.H. Beard, a 123-year-old, family-owned mattress manufacturer in Padstow, Australia, on July 21, 2022. The company sells many of its high-end mattresses in China. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialA mattress left elevated to dry out in a camp in Isidingo, outside Durban, South Africa, where regional storms and flooding took at least 448 lives last week, on April 18, 2022. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with cords fixing the legs. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836....
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples...
EditorialFresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked man and woman engaged in sex on a mattress. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of th...
EditorialKyrgyz sultana seated on a carpet and mattress inside a gher with woman and child. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen,...
EditorialKyrgyz sultana seated on a carpet and mattress inside a gher with woman and child. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen,...