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Design by IKEA: A Cultural History

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Design by IKEA: A Cultural History - Kristoffersson, Sara
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Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides the first sustained critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company's commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the brand with a particular image of Swedish national identity - one that is bound up with ideas of social democracy and egalitarianism - and its material expression in a pared-down, functional design aesthetic. Employing slogans such as "Design for everyone" and "Democratic design", IKEA signals a rejection of the stuffy, the ...

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Design by IKEA: A Cultural History 2014, Bloomsbury Academic, London

ISBN-13: 9780857858146

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Design by IKEA: A Cultural History 2014, Bloomsbury Academic, London

ISBN-13: 9780857858139

Hardcover