The Great Sleeping Bear

It’s a sleeping bag that looks like a bear but don’t worry, it’s not made of bear fur, in fact it’s not even made of real fur.

The Great Sleeping Bear was made and designed by Eiko Ishizawa, a Japanese designer residing in Amsterdam, for an art exhibition back in 2009. Here’s part of the story behind this remarkable sleeping bag.

This work is inspired by the news in Bavaria, 2006- the news was about a bear, which escaped from the Italian side of the Alps to the Bavarian side. He was called a problem bear, as he was the first wild bear since 170 years. He evoked huge discussion among people and government whether they should kill or leave him alive. In the end, he was hunted down. I was interested in this tragic story of the bear, as well as the starting point of this tragedy; this bear was generating many different ideas and emotions in people as illusions in reality by just crossing the borderline between countries.

It’s a good product with an interesting story and rumors spread that it was going to be on sale by spring 2009.

Unfortunately, until this day The Great Sleeping Bear is still not made available to the public.