Waterbeds are making a comeback at City Furniture this week. The Tamarac-based business got its start as Waterbed City in 1970s but sold its last waterbeds in 2003, going on to build a chain of 27 ...

At their height of popularity in the mid-1980s, waterbeds made up one in five mattresses sold in Australia. By the 90s, demand had collapsed and waterbeds were left with a reputation of being daggy, a ...

Two pioneers of the industry are hoping to generate a new wave of popularity for the old furniture concept by using a wholesome new pitch. TAMARAC, Fla. - Waterbeds still elicit a wink, wink, nudge, ...

Waterbeds still elicit a wink, wink, nudge, nudge whenever they come up in conversation – but two pioneers of the industry in the United States are hoping to generate a new wave of popularity for the ...

Waterbeds are making a comeback at City Furniture this week. The Tamarac-based business got its start as Waterbed City in 1970s but sold its last waterbeds in 2003, going on to build a chain of 27 ...

TAMARAC, FLA. (WSVN) - An iconic piece of furniture is making a comeback in South Florida. Once a staple of the ’70s and ’80s, the waterbed is back, thanks to City Furniture. Called “Afloat,” the ...

It’s been nearly 50 years since Charles Hall first unveiled the waterbed in San Francisco. Hall, then a graduate student in product design at San Francisco State University, said he designed the ...

It may never join the loftiest ranks of modern furniture design, those hallowed niches reserved for the likes of Mies van der Rohe or Charles Eames. And it is possible to overstate the cultural ...

On my recent trip to Florida I picked up the Sarasota Herald-Tribune one day and started to flip through it. I stopped at a full-page ad. The ad was for the John W. Schultz Co.–a waterbed store. The ...

He used Jell-O and cornstarch at first, but the squashy gunk, poured into a vinyl bladder, was too heavy to move. And it began to stink after a few days. Then he tried water. “Rancid Jell-O Led to ...