Why Stephen
started Luff
I didn’t start Luff because I was obsessed with mattresses. I started it because I know what it feels like to desperately need sleep. When I was in my teens, I lived with rheumatoid arthritis. Some nights, the pain was unbearable and sleep felt impossible.
At home, life was turbulent. The next morning, whether I felt ready or not, I still had to get up, walk miles to school and somehow show up. That taught me something I have never forgotten.
Sleep is not just the nice bit at the end of the day. It is the foundation underneath everything else. Your health. Your mood. Your patience. Your confidence. Your relationships. Your ability to think clearly, work hard, love fully and enjoy your life.
When you do not sleep well, everything feels heavier.
When you finally do, life feels possible again.
I made it to Nottingham University and started my first business. One summer, without the money for hotels or an office, I went through another period with no settled place to properly rest. I slept on friends’ sofas, on floors and, many nights, in my car.
It brought the same truth back with force. Without a safe, restorative place to sleep, your body and mind pay the price. When you have slept in a car, a sofa or on someone else’s floor, a bed stops being just furniture.
It becomes dignity. It becomes recovery. It becomes the place life gives you back to yourself.
So when I looked at the sleep industry, I could not understand why something this important was being treated so carelessly.
The market was full of products that looked comfortable on the surface, but were often short-lived, overhyped, full of unnecessary synthetics, or disconnected from what sleep really means to people’s health. Luxury often meant expensive. Sustainability often felt like a slogan. And genuine recovery was rarely the centre of the conversation.
I wanted to build something better.
Not just another bed company.
A sleep brand with a soul.
Your Sleep.
Your Health.
Your Planet.
Luff was built around a simple belief: better sleep should help you live better. Not just get through the night.
Live better. Look fresher. Feel clearer. Breathe easier. Wake up with more patience for your family, more energy for your work, and more capacity to enjoy your life.
That is why every Luff product starts with the same question:
Will this help people wake up better?
We use sleep doctor guidance to understand how the body rests, aligns and recovers. We draw on Japanese weaving artistry from Kyoto to create fabrics that feel beautiful against the skin. And we chose rapidly regenerating bamboo over conventional cotton because it demands far fewer resources, renews quickly and feels incredible to sleep on.
Woven into our proprietary Nanoweave® fabric, it creates a sleep surface that is naturally breathable, temperature-regulating and sumptuously soft. You feel the difference the moment you lie down.
Cleaner. Cooler. Calmer. More restorative.
That is what Luff means by luxury. Not showing off. Not excess. The quiet luxury of waking up feeling like yourself again.
A Brand With A Bigger Purpose
Luff began with a personal understanding of what sleep can mean when life is difficult. That is why our mission reaches beyond beautiful bedrooms.
By committing 10% of our profits directly to homeless charities across the UK, we honour where this story began: with the belief that everyone deserves a safe, restorative place to sleep.
Because sleep affects everything. Your body. Your mind. Your family. Your future. And the planet we all share.
That is our mission.
Your Sleep. Your Health. Your Planet.
Feel the Luff.

