I Wish This $56,000 Mattress Weren’t So Incredible

The Hästens 2000T mattress on a blue and white checkered bed frame.

As Wirecutter’s resident sleep expert, I’ve tested nearly a hundred mattresses, including a dozen of those in my own home. I’ve slept on everything from affordable beds-in-boxes to $10,000 mattresses made from materials developed for NASA. While I have found decent, even wonderful, options across the spectrum, none of them have compared to the Hästens 2000T.

It also costs $55,780.

To be clear: Wirecutter, in general, is not in the business of recommending any product that would be so out of reach for so many. And I live in a basement in Brooklyn, so spending over $50,000 on anything is a massive ask, nearly comically beyond my general spending habits and those of many of our readers.

But the Hästens mattress had been a white whale, something I’d wanted to try since I started testing mattresses for Wirecutter, nearly three years ago. I knew they were high-end pieces with a devoted following. Drake owns one that costs as much as a one-bedroom co-op. And I wanted to know: How good could these mattresses be? (Considering their price, they’d better be very good.)

I figured Hästens would have more-accessible options that we could group-test for our innerspring mattress guide. Not quite.

The more I learned about these mattresses—how they’re crafted and maintained, along with their extraordinary cost—the clearer it became that they weren’t suited to our typical mattress-testing protocol. So Linus Adolfsson, co-founder of the Sleep Spa, which sells Hästens mattresses, offered me a slightly different setup than usual. I would undergo a “Sleep Spa Experience” to pair me with the right mattress. Hästens would then lend it to me (along with a box spring and a headboard, which brought the cost to over $75,000), so that I could test the mattress for a longer period of time.

As I do with anything I cover, I adhered to Wirecutter’s ethics policy: I would return the mattress at the end of the testing period, and I made no promises of a review. Six months later, I’ll just come out and say it: The Hästens 2000T turned out to be far better than I could have imagined. But it really made me wonder: What price can we put on our sleep?



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