The fashion brand Balenciaga recently offered lovers of the beautiful and expensive a new fashion bag – the Balenciaga Arena. It costs a fortune. Does it remind you of something too? It looks exactly the same as Ikea's famous Frakta bag, which is a thousand times cheaper. Literally!
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We all know her. Ikea's famous blue bag called Frakta. In the future, it will no longer be blue, but white.
Assembling Ikea furniture was already quite simple, but it will become even easier in the future. Ikea has invented a way to assemble furniture units without any tools!
The popular Swedish company Ikea presents a new collection seasoned with bright colors and various motifs. Ikea Spridd is a collection of furniture and home accessories that will especially delight fans of pop art. The products are designed mainly with young people in mind, for whom the price is also suitable. The Spridd collection is a fruitful collaboration between Ikea and British fashion designer Kit Neal.
Leading manufacturers are increasingly aware of the importance of recycling waste materials. Ikea is one of them. The Swedish furniture giant presented the first line of kitchen cabinets made from recycled bottles and reclaimed wood. It's called Kungsbacka and it's created with the principles of sustainable development in mind.
They say that for every disease a rose grows, and Ikea says that for every problem in an interpersonal relationship its product 'grows'. Ikea is known for having products with interesting names. This is no coincidence, as the founder is dyslexic. Therefore, instead of product codes, he invented a naming system to make products easier to remember. He named garden furniture after Swedish islands, gave chairs and tables male names, larger products after major Swedish places... Now Ikea turned to Google for inspiration and named the products after the most searched terms in the field of relationship problems. Each product solves the problem for which it was named.
Ikea in Norway has teamed up with the Red Cross and installed a life-size replica of a Syrian apartment in its store in Slependen. It is typical for Ikea to display nicely furnished rooms that imitate a real home in its stores, but this pop-up apartment, which came as close as possible to the one 'on the ground', is the complete opposite and reflects the real situation in Syria. The installation has a charitable note, but at the same time reminds people how lucky they can be to live in the conditions they do.
Assembling Ikea furniture is quite simple and we have to be really clumsy not to say anything that we fail to put together simple furniture elements such as a chest of drawers, a table and a chair. Apparently, despite the crystal clear instructions, this is too much for some. These individuals covered the whole line when assembling Ikea furniture. Can you really be so incompetent that you fail? The answer is more than obvious 'yes, you can'!
Do you love Ikea stores? Marvel at the numbers created by Ikea in Zagreb.
While we're still thinking about pumpkins, Ikea's thoughts are already on winter and the Christmas and New Year holidays. As is her habit, she hastened the presentation of her winter holiday collection this year as well, which is why we can't wait for the festive December to arrive. The Holiday Collection 2016 is a guide to December's trendy home accessories.
Just like Lego blocks, each of us has an item from Ikea at home. Ikea has been on the scene since 1943. Since then, on average, it adds around 2,500 new products to its range every year. Some take better, others worse. Recently, its best-selling Poäng chair celebrated 40 years, and the Swedish furniture giant recently released its most popular products of all time.
Ikea regularly refreshes its product range, but a careful eye has noticed that one product does not disappear from their range and catalog - the Poäng armchair. The armchair by Japanese designer Nobora Nakamura is celebrating its venerable 40 years these days. It is Ikea's best-selling armchair. Even today, every year Ikea sells as many as 1.5 million units. Do you have it at home too?