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.
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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?
Two guys from Belgium went even further than the Slovenian who took a bath in the jacuzzi at the Bauhaus (they were arrested overnight by the police because they imitated the Belgians and tried to spend the night in Harvey Norman). They just spent the night in the Ikea store and, as they say, the best night of their lives is behind them. Meatballs for dinner and the most comfortable bed for sweet dreams.
Don't do this alone at home! Assemble Ikea furniture, but not under the influence of psychoactive substances like the actors of the documentary series on the Hikea YouTube channel. As you probably know from your own experience, assembling Ikea furniture is not an art, so it mostly goes smoothly, as the instructions are clear and written step by step. All this does not apply if we are under the influence of drugs. Thus, a seemingly simple task becomes a whole science. It's like letting a 3-year-old build Lego Technic instead of Lego Duplo bricks.
Ikea responded to Kanye West's request for collaboration. In March, the American rapper tweeted that he was greatly inspired by a visit to Ikea, and recently expressed his desire to collaborate on the radio. After a few days, Ikea herself responded to the request, being "enthusiastic" about West's proposal and telling him that she could make him famous. But the sentence must be read in English, otherwise we do not know that it is a clever play on words. "... we could make you famous" is a reference to his infamous video with naked celebrities. Well, Ikea also added an interesting design for a bed and a chair, specially adapted for his wife Kim Kardashian.
One of the most annoying habits of smartphone users is taking pictures of food. It is these "Dinner Snappers", i.e. people who take pictures of meals on the table, that Ikea treated themselves to in their latest ad. Set in the 17th century, the sarcastic ad was created by Swedish advertising agency Acne and imagines what dining would have looked like if people back then were as obsessed with portraying food as they are today.