If you want a mattress, Art Van has them. But if you need to buy more than that to help you sleep, you can go to the Art Van PureSleep store, a stand-alone emporium that opened in the former Blockbuster space on Jackson across from Maple Village at the end of September.
It’s the Warren-based furniture chain’s fifth PureSleep store. In addition to mattresses, it carries a range of other products designed to enhance your sleeping experience, like soothing body lotions, aromatherapy candles, and sound therapy systems–basically boom boxes that play soothing sounds like babbling brooks, gently falling rain, softly lapping waves, and plain old white noise. The mattresses themselves start as low as $99 for a twin and go as high as $8,000 or more.
They’ve also got a “Sleep to Live” diagnostic system, essentially a computerized mattress with many moving parts. You lie on the mattress while the computer takes eighteen different measurements, analyzes your body’s sleeping needs based on them, then spits out a personalized report that purports to identify the best mattress for you. While the computer does all that figuring, it feeds a constant stream of data to the mattress so that it continually adjusts itself in incremental movements. The mattress shifts, bends, arches, elevates, or sinks while a soothing female voice talks you through what’s happening from one moment to the next. It’s not an unpleasant experience and sort of feels like you’re floating inside a sensory deprivation tank, only with coils and a tag it’s against the law to remove.
Art Van PureSleep, 2750 Jackson Rd. (888) 920-1642. Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. artvan.com
