In keeping with tradition, the making and the refurbishment of natural wool mattresses and box springs by the Le Briand mattress makers follow certain guidelines.
These fundamental principles have enabled Le Briand, manufacturer of wool mattresses and box springs, to perpetuate a know-how that is offered to all types of customers (individuals and professionals) who appreciate the comfort, the aesthetics and the entirely natural composition of our production.
These guidelines echo our commitment to making natural, hand-crafted French bedding accessible to as many people as possible.
Comfort first
The comfort of our bedding is at the heart of Le Briand know-how and manufacturing, because sleep directly affects our health.
We do everything in our power to ensure optimum sleeping comfort. This involves:
- a meticulous selection of the finest materials
- in-depth knowledge of bedding products and the logic behind each one
- a customer experience based on listening, advice and support
- made-to-measure design and production
Comfort first and foremost!
Having quality bedding is one of the necessary conditions for restorative sleep. Along with diet and physical exercise, sleep is one of the 3 pillars of a healthy life.
Sleep quality is essential for a healthy life: numerous studies have highlighted this correlation.
Traditional bedding meets health requirements by offering all the benefits of quality sleep.
For example, bedding plays an important role in preventing back pain.
More generally, traditional bedding offers cozy comfort.
Wool mattresses offer benefits that are too rarely highlighted. Here are a few examples:
- A wool mattress supports the sleeper’s weight perfectly, offering a soft welcome at the surface and a firm one at the core.
- wool offers thermal insulation superior to every other material used in bedding. In winter, the sleeper’s warmth spreads into the mattress and is given back over the course of the night. In summer, the mattress will have stored the coolness of the room, so it stays at a pleasantly moderate temperature and lets the sleeper fall asleep cool.
- wool plays a hygrometric regulation role. It can absorb a large amount of moisture, between 16 and 18% of its own weight, and so always keep a dry touch. It releases that water vapor during the day, drying deep down and starting the same regulation again the next night. The sleeper therefore never has that unpleasant night-time feeling of sweating and waking up in a cold sweat. Wool is the only natural fiber able to breathe the moisture of the air this way, and synthetic fibers cannot imitate it.
- Its moisture-regulating capacity favors a healthy environment in which dust mites do not proliferate.
To help you make the right decisions as you discover traditional bedding, we have also designed information guides, based on the know-how and experience we have acquired over the years:
A well-cared-for, long-lasting finished product
The quality of the finished product is ensured by:
- century-old expertise, conscientiously handed down
- a meticulous selection of the best raw material producers
- a relationship of trust with our suppliers
- bespoke, hand-crafted manufacturing that values the intelligence of the hand
The keys to the longevity of our products are clear.
Making and refurbishment operations are strictly controlled to ensure meticulous work, whose quality is verified by a final inspection before the piece is presented to the customer. If anything does not suit you once your piece or pieces have been made, we are here to put it right.
The attention paid to manufacturing quality and the longevity of traditional bedding mean that the pieces leaving our workshops last for several decades:
- A wool mattress has a more or less unlimited lifespan with regular refurbishments (every 8 to 12 years depending on the sleeper)
- The box spring, for its part, needs less frequent refurbishment: roughly every 20 to 25 years.
If a product can last so long while keeping the greater part of its virtues and qualities, the initial investment has to be put into perspective over time.
The intelligence of the hand
With both hands, thread and needles, the result is extremely effective.
Experience, coupled with the minimizing of effort and of energy expenditure (muscular energy included), lets us reach a wonderfully optimum result!
It is a way of thinking whose effectiveness has been refined over time.
Good value for money?
Our prices allow the widest possible range of budgets to afford this essential, healthy everyday item.
When you consider the benefits and virtues of a carefully-crafted, made-to-measure, natural finished product, as well as the price of using such bedding in relation to its life expectancy, the value for money of sleeping well can then be greatly appreciated.
To be complete in a price comparison between the different bedding alternatives, and thus reach an accurate evaluation of each, we have detailed new perspectives in response to the questions you usually ask us about prices:
- Purchase price vs. use price
- How are our prices defined to be the fairest and most equitable?
- Analysis of environmental and societal costs
- Made-to-measure and price
While the purchase of traditional bedding is financially harder on the budget, this effort is transformed into savings in view of its longevity and virtues.
Patrice Sébille, manager of the Le Briand workshops until 2024
Noble, natural and recyclable materials from France
The Le Briand workshops control the entire production chain, including the supply of raw materials.
We use exclusively noble and natural materials:
- pure new wool
- flax tow
- pure cotton ticking
- solid wood
- animal hair
- hemp rope
Thanks to our control of the supply chain, we can guarantee that we use no product likely to present any health risk to our customers, our neighbors or our suppliers.
These materials contain no industrial synthetic components.
We work with a 100% French production chain, from raw material sourcing through to manufacturing.
We rely on suppliers belonging to the French industry to offer products that are 100% made in France.
Find out how the Le Briand mattress makers are committed to making French assets shine.
Respecting the environment and people
Our know-how and the materials we use are perfectly in line with the definition of sustainable development.
When you choose Le Briand, the manufacturer of wool mattresses and box springs, you can be sure your bedding will have a limited carbon footprint thanks to:
- Wool extracted with respect for animal welfare, in harmony with the natural cycle of this living creature
- Entirely natural, non-polluting materials, with no industrial synthetic component
- The vast majority of finished products are recyclable
- A 100% French production chain: from the production of raw materials to final assembly
- Traditional know-how: handmade production
- Production that is low in energy consumption: only two operations are mechanized
- A short-circuit economy
The entire value chain (from design to delivery) of natural, ecological and French bedding generates a minimum of negative externalities for the environment and for people.
We participate in our own way in the essential challenges of modern society:
- eliminate anything that would aggravate global warming
- strictly limit the pollution of our environment
- slow down our way of producing, and therefore of consuming.
That is why we never resort to chemicals and use no product likely to present any health risk.
These principles, made possible by our traditional know-how, reduce the amount of waste produced and our energy consumption to the bare minimum.
As a result, we and our customers can proudly show a particularly low carbon footprint.
Our actions demonstrate our workshops’ commitment to contemporary issues.
Choosing a natural wool mattress and/or a box spring also brings other perspectives into the picture:
- supporting the local economy
- promoting national craftsmanship
- resistance to consumerism and programmed obsolescence
Finally, in a society where consumerism is increasingly exacerbated, traditional bedding offers products that last over the long term to curb overconsumption and break with the logic of programmed obsolescence so damaging to the environment.
The impact of our products and services is therefore as societal as it is environmental, which makes us even prouder of the work done, under way and to come.
The social impact of our expertise
Equipping yourself with natural bedding is a socially responsible choice.
It is a purchase that benefits the national economy and culture, keeps a local craft alive and contributes to France’s influence.
In the same way as industry and agriculture, preserving this fabric of craftsmen and women means we can continue to control our production effort, which is France’s strength in a fiercely competitive world!
Discover how the Le Briand workshops are committed to creating objects in harmony with nature.