Employees of the Shifman Mattress Co. assemble quilted mattresses Tuesday
at the firm's newly renovated facility in Newark's Ironbound section.
Posted on 11/19/2008 7:19:45 PM PST by Coleus
President-elect Barack Obama hasn't named a secretary of state yet and the Obama family hasn't decided which breed of dog will get to romp on the White House lawn. But at the Shifman Mattress Co. in Newark's Ironbound section, there's hope that the new president will follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and choose one of their hand-tufted luxury mattresses to lay his head on.
Both the Kennedy and Clinton administrations purchased Shifman mattresses for the White House, so this isn't just wishful thinking, said company president Bill Hammer. The purchases may date back even further, to the Teddy Roosevelt administration. "We never send a product out that's not 100 percent right, so he'd be sleeping on the best," said production manager Nick James. "To run a country like this, you need a good night's rest." Yesterday, the 115-year old company unveiled a 24,000-square-foot, multimillion-dollar expansion at its Mott Street factory that will allow it to produce mattresses for U.S. presidents -- or consumers with presidential budgets -- well into the future.
The hand-tufted mattresses, which can cost $3,500 to $21,000, are stuffed with multiple layers of cotton and can take up to 8½ hours each to build. The company also produces furniture-quality box springs complete with titanium rods and 8-way hand-tied steel coils. Shifman additionally produces lower-cost mattresses, starting at $699, that still get more attention than similar products from their competitors, Hammer said. "It's fantastic that someone of the president's stature would consider selecting us. It would make us very proud and happy if President-elect Obama went with our bedding," he said. Company CEO Michael Hammer said as one of the few remaining symbols of Newark's past as a leader in the textile and furniture industry, the business remaining in Newark
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Employees of the Shifman Mattress Co. assemble quilted mattresses Tuesday
at the firm's newly renovated facility in Newark's Ironbound section.
He can sleep on a bed of snails for all i care
if he listened to rush, he’d buy a sleep number bed. but noooo he’ll never listen to conservatives.
He’s surrounded himself w/enough clintoonites he might as well imitate their sleep habits. Given that Kennedy & clintoon were womanizers to the nth degree, osama wants to be one too.
I guess being president has even more perks than I imagined.
PS--anyone who would pay that kind of money for a mattress is either using OPM or is deranged, IMHO.
Those mattresses look good for the Lincoln bedroom when you’re trying to jump as high as you can.
Who would not want to sleep on a mattress used in the Clinton White House for eight years?
Well—there is that—LOL!
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