June 5, 2018 Rupert Herring Furniture, Featured, Available A BED 10,000 YEARS IN THE MAKING. June 5, 2018 Rupert Herring Furniture, Featured, Available The story of this bed really starts around 10,000 years ago in the Neolithic period – likely long before any human occupation in Aotearoa, New Zealand. A time when native trees, rather than people, dominated the land we now callhome.