Wish I could buy the furniture of 40 years ago instead of the stuff they make now.
Edit: maybe not, just had a look at their 1981 catalogue...
The IKEA catalogue through the ages
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also allows them to erase all women. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/10/02/162139455...
This is from 2012 and was done without IKEA's consent.
How about the prison numbers on the black person's t-shirt from 2021?
https://www.businessinsider.com/ikea-2021-catalog-delayed-im... https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/ikea-offensive-racial-image-b...
and the "can't be black for the greek market" from 2018?
https://www.thelocal.se/20180206/ikea-agent-tells-actor-he-c...
Point I am trying to make is that IKEA is a slick global company that is not "good" in a moral sense but rather doing what makes them the most money.
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#33I always think it is a nice fact that over 70% of all images (maybe even 90% today) in the latest catalogues are 3D renders. This gives IKEA the ability to change things (plants, wallpapers, and so on) depending on different cultures without having to completely change a studio. Edit: a YT video from 3 years ago about the workflow: https://youtu.be/bJFlslL1wFI Textures are prepared in Photoshop, models made and textu…
IKEA is a Khronos Group promoter member: https://www.khronos.org/members/list
(note: my employer is a part of the IKEA group)
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#34Why, why did the Kramfors sofa get killed off? It was a $400 sofa that rivaled $3000 sofas from other manufacturers and nothing in the market comes close these days.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder to what extent it's due to considering the environmental impact bad publicity.
Compared to this though? "Ikea has for years sold children’s furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected Russian forests, an Earthsight investigation has found." https://www.earthsight.org.uk/news/press-release-illegal-rus...
So IKEA bought lumber certified by FSC, which at least until recently was a well renowned organisation. Apparently FSC shouldn't have certified this particular lumber. "FSC denies wrongdoing, but shortly after being alerted to our findings Bakurov’s certificate was abruptly terminated on 15 Jun 2021."
This might be a scandal with FSC, but hardly with IKEA. I don't expect every company to themselves track every piece of raw material back to the sources. They must be allowed to outsource some of that.
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#36It used to be common in Sweden to see stickers by the mail slot that read "No advertisement, please! But gladly the IKEA catalogue." They stopped distributing the printed catalogue long before 2021, but I've kept the sticker.
I remember a time when you wanted (some) adds. I had a "No adds but the Cinema timetable and catalogues please" on my mailbox. I almost miss the paper adds. Somehow they were wildly more relevant ...
Ha, does the postman/postwoman[0] respect the sign? I've got a "nevhazujte letáky" sticker on my mailbox ("no flyers/ads") that is completely ignored. As an immigrant this is particularly grating around election season when my mailbox is stuffed with material from a couple of anti-immigration candidates.
[0] - I just realised that I only use the Scottish gender-neutral slang "postie" and don't know the correct one in standard English :D
Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages
#37It used to be common in Sweden to see stickers by the mail slot that read "No advertisement, please! But gladly the IKEA catalogue." They stopped distributing the printed catalogue long before 2021, but I've kept the sticker.
You could always order it for free from their website.
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#38I definitely think it's a mistake that IKEA stopped printing their catalogues last year. The offline experience is totally different from online. Online I tend to do direct searches for things I already decided I want, but the IKEA catalog is perfect for casual browsing and getting new ideas for stuff I would've never bought otherwise. It might come off as a cost saving short term, but I doubt in the end the catalogu…
>, but the IKEA catalog is perfect for casual browsing and getting new ideas for stuff I would've never bought otherwise. Understand the advantage of serendipity by flipping through pages instead of entering product search queries. Fyi, the latest 2022 catalogs are available online with the typical "print book" layout and also downloadable as pdf: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/catalogues/ With pdf catal…
Nowadays most people will probably use their phones for this sort of thing. Those PDFs really don't work well on mobile devices.
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#39Wish I could buy the furniture of 40 years ago instead of the stuff they make now. Edit: maybe not, just had a look at their 1981 catalogue...
For what it is worth,the Pöang is pretty much unchanged except it is dramatically less expensive now.
Re: The IKEA catalogue through the ages
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder to what extent it's due to considering the environmental impact bad publicity.
Compared to this though? "Ikea has for years sold children’s furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected Russian forests, an Earthsight investigation has found." https://www.earthsight.org.uk/news/press-release-illegal-rus...
I was not implying anything very factually based, just a decision based on people's perception. Like the ban on plastic straws.