The Eala is the tallest bed in the Essential collection: a middle mattress on a base, 48 centimetres tall, with 1,338 springs and more flax than most Hästens beds. Hästens describes the feel as firm yet yielding. It is for those who want the construction of a two-part bed without the height and weight of the Icon collection.
Like the Herlewing and the 2000T, the Eala consists of a middle mattress and a base. The middle mattress has 15-centimetre pocket springs with reinforced corners and edges; the base holds a single layer of 13-centimetre Bonnell springs. Together, 1,338 steel springs.
Hästens names two features. The Eala contains more flax than most beds, in the corners too, which therefore stay silent. And the sides are stitched through by hand, which makes the edge firmer: you can lie close to the side without the bed giving way.
The Eala opens the Essential collection, the beds with which, as Hästens puts it, you ‘enter the world of Hästens’. Compared with the Herlewing it has one spring system fewer in the base and is 3 centimetres lower. Compared with the Maranga, also a two-part bed, it has longer pocket springs and is 8 centimetres taller.
The name comes from Hawaiian, in which ‘Eala!’ is called out to wake someone. Until 2018 the model was called Auroria.
Both are two-part beds with 1,338 springs. The Eala has 15 cm pocket springs and 13 cm Bonnell springs; the Maranga 13 and 8 cm. As a result the Eala is 48 cm tall and the Maranga 40 cm. How that works out for your body, you only discover by lying on it.
It belongs to the Essential collection, but within it is the tallest and most fully built bed. According to the catalogue, Hästens' entry model is the Marquis.