Is a box spring needed on a platform bed? My boyfriend and I bought this bed: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/produc... Our mattress is a...

My boyfriend and I bought this bed:
http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/produc...
Our mattress is a Kingsdown, and is made entirely of latex. It's allegedly going to last forever. That aside, with a box spring, it sits 22 inches glorious on the bed. The bed has slats, so do I need the box spring? will a platform bed be adequate support? If I could be rid of the box spring it would be less high up and more attractive, but I'm worried I'll hurt the mattress.
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Answers:    No a box spring is not essential, but I would add a sheet of plywood or MDF underneath it for added support. I did that on my platform adding the wood over the slats for better performance, easy removal for cleaning and it tend to hold the fitted sheet better to the mattress.
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This bed isn't a platform bed; the style and construction is all wrong. You do need to use box springs below your mattress on this style bed. A mattress by its self on slats won't be supported well enough; however, you could put a sheet of ply wood on the slats and that would provide support - if you did this you could skip using the box spring.