Talk:Futon

message: I don't understand this assertion in the article:
Futons must be aired in sunlight regularly, especially if not put away during the day. 
It would seem more likely that a futon stuffed away in a dark closet during the day would be the futon that needs more airing and sunlight.  No?
:I've heard that statement made before; I would attempt to justify it by pointing out that futons not stashed away daily tend to develop moldy-type substances on the underside (not so much if you're on tatami though) and washitsu closets tend to be quite dry and airy so they might actually have some benefit over just leaving it on the floor all the time.
:I don't think it's implying that a dark closet is better than a bright room, just that when airing/cleaning the futon it's best to expose it to sunlight for a few hours as well.   freshgavin TALK    17:17, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Assertion

message: Your information is correct, but they did not use it for worship. J-A-V-A 15:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nor were they made "around the Japanese period". Japan is a geographical location, not a period. 2.25.130.66 (talk) 22:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: RE:Whopper

message: There was an odd claim that Western-style futons are not intended for use as couches, only as beds or chairs--contradicted by the illustration of a Western futon accompanying the article, and by checking the sites of Western futon retailers.  If I was misunderstanding something about this claim, perhaps it needed to be clarified.
Bassington 00:37, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not intended for use as a couch

message: Why does 'sofabed' redirect here?  A bed which can be folded into the body of a couch is much different from a futon! 204.15.100.52 14:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sofabed

message: At least in Germany a Futon ins‘t a Sofabed but a Bed wich isn‘t as high as a normal Bed. Opposite Problem in the german Wikipedia were they describe the foresaid low Bed as a "western Futon" --84.46.79.34 (talk) 03:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   Different Western Styl 

message: There is a wealth of documentary evidence supporting the assertion the this style of futon was created and first introduced into the U.S. market by Tara Eden Pearl and distributed sucessfully by her firms:  Natural Design, Inc. and Euro 2000.  Moreover, she was described frequently in several legitimate sources as the founder of that industry in the U.S.  I would assert that the Chicago Tribune is an unimpeachable source as are the others I have located:
^ "Finding the American Dream on a Japanese Bed," by Edie Cohen, Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1986, Business, pg. 17.
^ "86 People to Watch in 1986," by Margaret Carroll, Edie Cohen and Sharon Stangenes, Chicago Tribune, January 2, 1986, Style, Pg. 7.
^ "Fun Furniture: The Flexible Futon," Real Estate Profile, February 5, 1988, pg. 31.
^ "Turnabout is Fair Play," by Jaime Gilson, Chicago Magazine, October 1986
^ "Sweet Dreams" (Cover Story) by Frances Huffman and Barbara Revsine, Entrepreneurial Woman, March 1991, pg. 52 - 55.ear
^ "Furniture that Unfolds with Flair" by Abigail Foerstner, Chicago Tribune, March 1, 1987, pg. 4
^ "Eurostyle--the idea may be Continental but the execution's purely American" (Cover Story, Home Section), Chicago Tribune, August 2, 1987, pg. 1
^ "Jazz", Interiors Magazine, May 1988, pg. 268
^ "Style Preview", Metropolitan Home Magazine, November 1988, pg. 41
^ Two on 2: Interview with the Inventor of Futons, interviewed by Sally Cusick, WBBM-TV Channel 2 Chicago, original air date April 20, 1988
Although much of this material is pre-Internet, articles from the Chicago Tribune can be easily located online.  I have not editorialized the information, only summarized it.
The editors of this article specifically requested more citations and documentary evidence; I have supplied same.  Moreover, there is nothing remotely promotional in the text I added to the article, neither Ms. Pearl nor Natural Design, Inc. are still in that business and I have only restated that which has appeared in print within the sources cited above. 
- hello, i see you claim futons have been brought to the west in around 1980, however see this link https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rD0KAAAAIAAJ&q=%22futon%22&dq=%22futon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI3Iz6mprkAhUCSxUIHcTOCCYQ6AEINTAC it clearly shows futon mentioned in a book from OVER a hundreds years ago  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.64.166.48 (talk) 00:14, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This refers to this content. Not having seen the articles, Staceydfla, it's hard to assess if it's WP:undue. Can you provide any links to them? Some later, more retrospective/historical sources woulg be better than contemporary periodical publications for establishing historic importance. HLHJ (talk) 04:23, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western or American Futons 

message: Does this article belong in wikiproject Industrial design? -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:17, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Industrial design?