Compasso d’Oro 1979

The TR15 hospital bed was designed in six hands: the architects Castiglioni and Pozzi together with the traumatologist Zerbi.

“The TR25 – explains the technical data sheet of the Emilian company – introduces a new concept of the function of hospital beds: it accommodates the patient at registration, from where he can be wheeled to he ward, intensive care, the threshold of the sterile zone of the operating theatre, radiology, physiotherapy, chapel, the terrace and then to the hospital entrance for discharge; the bed is anonymous, without wards or social class distinction; the empty bed no longer layover on the ward, but comes replaced at the deposit for a ready one, made up, cleaned and disinfected”

The project aimed to define a bed independent of its specific use, adapted to all clinical and pathological situations, considering the needs of the involved staff. Made in stove-enamelled tubular steel, chromed at the points subjected to wear, the bed is composed by a base structure featured with four swivel wheels. The secondary structure, in tubular steel with a flattened cross-section to support the sturdy electro-welded steel bedsprings, is hinged to the lower frame to allow different inclinations. Over it, by adding a frame portion, it is possible to raise the backrest.