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Earlier this month, we took a pictorial tour of Drake’s newly completed mansion, boasting everything from an NBA regulation-size basketball court to a 21-square-foot pyramidal skylight.

You know, regular house stuff.

The tour took us through the design vision of Canadian architectural and interior designer Ferris Rafauli.

What we somehow failed to notice was what lives underneath this bird duvet and fur overlay:

We refer to the mattress.

VICE goes into why this is somehow what everyone is thinking about.

It turns out that the most interesting-slash-WTF amenity in his extraordinarily lavish residence isn’t the Bösendorfer grand piano that was customized by artist Takashi Murakami, nor the 20,000-piece Swarovski crystal lighting installation.

It isn’t even the two-story closet filled with the Hermès Birkin bags that he’s been collecting for “the woman he ends up with.”

Instead, we’ve all lost our goddamn minds about his mattress, a half-ton, hand-crafted showpiece with shagreen leather corners, golden brass accents, and a $390,000 price tag.

The “Grand Vividus” is a just-launched collaboration between luxury Swedish mattress-maker Hästens and artist and designer Ferris Rafauli. And because Rafauli was hired to leave his gilded Beaux Arts fingerprints all over Drake’s home, the rapper was able to swoop the world’s first Grand Vividus, and the only one that has been delivered to date.

That’s around R7,2 million for a mattress.

But, is it a mattress? It certainly isn’t the garden variety bed that most of us lie in at night, counting the hours while trying to sleep.

“In Sweden, sleeping isn’t just about sleeping, it’s about self-care,” Linus Adolfsson, who runs the Hästens Sleep Spa and the three Hästens stores in Los Angeles, told VICE.

“Your mattress should be the most important piece of furniture in your home. In Sweden, if your couch costs more than your mattress, people won’t understand. We have a completely different attitude to sleeping.”

Drake’s mattress costs more than a house, so yeah, I assume he’s ticked the ‘more expensive than your couch’ box.

All of that is great, but there has to be something really special about the mattress. Does it make you coffee in the morning? Is it infused with a rare species of hand-picked lavender, harvested by monks in the Himalayan mountains?

The basic differences between the Classic and the Grand versions [of the mattress – Drake has a Grand] are in the amount of horsehair (yup, you read that right), the number of springs, and in the time it takes to construct it by hand. Four certified craftsmen work for around 600 hours on each Grand Vividus, while a Classic Vividus can be finished in half the time.

All of Hästens mattresses are made with natural materials—cotton, flax, wool, and horsehair—and involve a complicated arrangement of springs that vary in height, size, and structure.

The springs apparently give the illusion of crowd surfing every time you fling yourself onto the bed.

“If you’re in an arena and everyone reaches up to catch you, you feel like you’re floating, and you don’t feel each individual hand. But if you try that with five friends, it’s a different story.”

Adolfsson goes on to justify the mattress by saying that “self-care, sleep, building up the immune system, those are all important things right now”.

They are, but not everyone can afford a horsehair crowd surfing mattress.

Enjoy, Drake.

[source:vice]