TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kristoffersson,Sara
AU  - Jewson,William
TI  - Design by IKEA: a cultural history 
SN  - 9780857858146 (pbk.) :
U1  - 381.4'56841'0065 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Ikea (Firm)
KW  - Furniture industry and trade
KW  - Sweden
KW  - History
KW  - Furniture design
KW  - Industry
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Translated from the Swedish; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides a sustained critical history of IKEA. She 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
ER  -