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Age and changes in our body influence our sleep patterns: babies, children, teenagers, adults and seniors don’t all sleep the same way. While sleep patterns change throughout our lives, sleep continues to play a key role in our physical and mental health and deserves our attention – especially as we start to find it more difficult to sleep.
Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has travelled the globe – and has been committed to protecting the planet for many years. He’s taking his action a step further through his GoodPlanet Foundation, investing in environmental education and the fight against climate change, and recognised as a foundation in the public interest since 2005.
World Sleep Day offers the opportunity to inform people of the positive impact that a good night's sleep has on the health. If you want to sleep better, you'll find the advice of specialised physicians below. And you'll also discover that your mattress plays an essential role in the quality of your rest.
For the 6th Elite Design Award competition, the House of Elite, specialists in the production of high-end beds and mattresses, chose the theme “Less is More”.
Able to dream and smell in his sleep, Daniel André is one of the country's rare perfumers. And one of the greatest in the world.
Daniel André is a creative perfumer who works for several luxury brands and changes horizon with each order. We meet with him in his laboratory in GenevaWorld-renowned British chef Heston Blumenthal has just bought himself an Elite bed. The man who we saw this spring on M6's "Top Chef" and who explained that bananas go as well with parsley as strawberries do with black olives - thanks to a basic flavour molecule they have in common - tells us about his vision of sleep. Not commonplace!
One third of the population lives with a proven sleep deficit. And for many others, there is the constant stress of trying to get to sleep. Should we be concerned? Dr. Katerina Espa Cervena, a psychiatrist, is the medical director of Cenas, the sleep medicine centre in Geneva. According to her, this lack of rest should be taken seriously, but it should not become an obsession. Very often, the more one chases after sleep, the more evasive it becomes... Interview.
For the past five years, Elite has held a competition to attract designers and creatives from around the world. From almost a hundred projects, the panel of judges has selected the project that best represented Elite’s vision of a true Designer bed. More than ever, the bed reigns supreme in terms of our bedroom design. And while our bedrooms get bigger and enjoy more light, our beds must take their design up a gear too.