Love sleep? Like looking at photographs of ruffled sheets? Interested in the how different species like to get their nap on? Then you’re gonna love MacGuffin magazine (full title, MacGuffin: The Life of Things). Launched at Milan furniture fair last month, it came to my attention when Fantastic Man announced on Facebook that their friends were launching a new title whose first issue was dedicated to beds. I freakin love bed.

As it’s a biannual title, you’ve got to imagine a lot of research has gone into said subject. I haven’t seen a copy of it yet but the content pages, sounding a lot like The Gentlewoman, include features on bedside manners, working in bed, Japanese sleep wear and an homage to Nest magazine, that lovely out-of-print interiors bible that alerted the world to the existence of Todd Oldham’s treehouse.

My main question about MacGuffin issue 1 is this though: In the making of it did they discover that it’s common in northern territories of the UK to call one’s bed a scratcher?

As far as I can decipher from what I’ve found on the inside pages, included are nests from the collection at Glasgow’s Huntarian Museum, copulating skyscrapers (!) and a bed by Superstudio.

In case you’re wondering about the title, it comes from the name given to plot devices in Hitchcock films – be it an object, place or person – which are not important to the main plot, but which all the same move the story along. 

Whatever. Beds, MacGuffin, looks appealing on a rainy day like today.