Medvin, approaching 50 and ready for a life change, signed a deal with B & M to become the bed's United States distributor. When a friend askedįor help in buying the bed two years ago, Mr.

Medvin managed to do so, paying what he recalls as $11,000 or $12,000. It was, however, manufactured by a German company, B & M International, and was difficult to import. He was living in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and the bed seemed idealįor guests.

Medvin, who is 51, first saw the retractable bed at a home-design show in Montreal about six years ago. Then you open it up and there's this huge wow factor.''Ī former investment manager on Wall Street, Mr. Perfect place to hang the wide-screen TV. It just looks like a home entertainment center, the Medvin, who has two in his Miami apartment, which doubles as the Zoom-Room showroom. ''I call it the James Bond Seduction Bed,'' says Mr. Then there's the description offered by Peter Medvin, the owner of Zoom-Room, who is importing the bed from Germany. A German-made bed that rests on bowed beechwood flats and uses a mechanism reminiscent of an automated garage door, if you can picture a garage door mechanism upside down.Īn irresistible piece of equipment with which to torment a cat. There are many ways to describe the high-tech hideaway bed called the Zoom-Room: A mattress that is stored vertically behind cabinets or an entertainment center, and that, with the push of a remote control button, slips down the wall and out into the

Zoom room bed