ELITE DESIGNERS AGAINST IKEA

Nov 12, 2004

ELITE DESIGNERS AGAINST IKEA

Is it meant to be serious?

Maybe not.

via Left exiled: Culture

Nov 12, 2004 7:14:57 PM

3 Comments

It's a commercial for IKEA. No doubt.

Posted by: Joe | Nov 12, 2004 at 07:41 PM

It's been running on TV here in the UK for a few weeks. Personally I think it's genius. I've caught myself (with my 'designer' hat on) looking down my nose at Ikea products a few times, only to realise I'm being a fool and there's a good reason my house is full of the stuff.

Posted by: Rob | Nov 13, 2004 at 03:45 AM

Hilarious (but it is a commercial for Ikea).

Still-I remember reading in some design magazine that because the Ikeas of the world have made "good taste" (or at least a clean-lined modernist version of good taste) affordable to the masses, the "fashion forward" (or at least, the fashion victims) have to choose awkward, clashing bad taste. Haven't seen this demonstrated in the design press. Plus, with a good eye, there is some distance still between Ikea and, say, Ligne Rosset :)

Posted by: Brian Miller | Nov 13, 2004 at 09:57 PM

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