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DANIEL HEER IS NOT JUST A MASTER OF ROSSHAARMATRATZE, MATTRESSES ENNOBLED WITH HORSEHAIR; HE IS ALSO AN ENLIGHTENED DESIGNER WHO HAS MANAGED TO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO THE CRAFT ESTABLISHED BY HIS FOREBEARS CONTEMPORARY TRADITION In his atelier on Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse in Berlin, Daniel Heer still manufactures horsehair mattresses in the tradition initiated by his great-grandfather in the early eighteenth century, using woven horsehair, virgin wool, precious fabrics and hand-stitching.
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