box spring
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On Wednesday, Wolfum textile designer Annabel Inganni was thinking about her 14-year-old son as she waited to pick up a free mattress and box spring at Living Spaces in Monrovia.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
She stood next to a waterlogged twin mattress and box spring — the remnants of water damage sustained after a fire two floors above forced her from her home days after Christmas.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2022
Under a tree, Yeidi and her mother spotted a rusting box spring, left behind on the night of the evictions.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021
The boudoir here has no four-poster bed or even a headboard, just a single mattress on a box spring with an unstable pile of books nearby.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2020
But the bed, built by Tony Bucci, is not exactly a bed; it’s just wood hammered together in the shape of a bed, with a plank where the box spring and mattress would be.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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