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Design by IKEA : a cultural history / Sara Kristoffersson ; translated by William Jewson.

By: Kristoffersson, Sara [author.]Contributor(s): Jewson, William [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2014Description: 192 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857858146 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Ikea (Firm) | Furniture industry and trade -- Sweden -- History | Furniture design -- Sweden -- History | Industry | IndustryDDC classification: 381.4'56841'0065 Summary: 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.
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Translated from the Swedish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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