Upstairs, the expansive master bedroom plus bath features a Jacuzzi, a skylight with retractable blinds over the bed, and a panoramic ocean view.
A retractable hood attached to a mobile bed is ideal for such situations.
Inside are four retractable tables, four solar-powered lights and plush beds (two singles and one double covered in mint green sheets and cloud-like duvets).
Not surprisingly, Mr. De Niro uses his R.V., which has a retractable second floor, a winding staircase, a pull-out bed and 11 plasma televisions — for film shoots.
"But it creates!" The French designer René Bouchara also has a take on the Murphy bed, with a sleek white-on-white retractable that would not look out of place in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
When imagining a sheep camp, picture a wooden tractor trailer with only a bed, single-burner stove, small storage space, and a retractable table.
The brushed-aluminum concoction, which incorporates shelves, closets and a nifty retractable desk, cost $15,000 -- the price of several conventional beds.
Probes containing two retractable, vertically-aligned tips were tested in a lab-scale two-dimensional fluidized bed operated in both single bubble injection and freely bubbling modes, with glass beads and polyethylene particles of narrow size distributions as bed materials.
And at no point did those in charge give any indication to the wider world of the scale of the problem – or, indeed, that the "retractable" seating solution chosen was not a state-of-the-art arrangement of rollers and air beds but literally rested on scaffolding and breeze blocks.
