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Saturday, 05 September 2009
 Furniture manufacturer, has had a tremendous impact on the global architecture. This is documented in a museum, an exhibition of contemporary art Liljevalchs Konsthall opened this week in Stockholm to celebrate the 60th anniversary production of the first Ikea furniture. Active in the exhibition to 13 August you can see the green chair in 1951, the red sofa is typical for the seventies and the lamp of 1995. - But this is not a classic exhibition devoted design. More documented way in which we live. These furnishings are very close to many people associate with their life's experiences. It's kind of a nostalgic trip into the world of memories - says curator Steffan Bengtsson. - People recognize the furniture. From his childhood, from his apartment. I think the show will remember, "we had the table" or "Anna was a chair," and anyway, what is going on with Anna and Henia ". And so in that way - he says. All the furniture spent their retirement in the suburbs of Stockholm. Now shows up at the exhibition as a fully-fledged work of art. Could not be packed into a small Volvo Ikea showing classic shapes from the sixties, a cornucopia of colors characteristic of acute eighties or what the company called "democratic design" in the nineties, the exhibition tells the story, which he could not even tell Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea. The story of Ingvar Kamprad does not really matter. I thought that they have a wonderful archive of Ikea, which I could go and choose her what I wanted for the exhibition. But it is not - says Bengtsson. - So we asked neighbors and friends. We gave notice in the press. It was hard, but in the end we managed to collect all these items in one place - he adds. Kamprad, known for his caricatured even saving, or lent to the exhibition one thing - the green chair in 1951, which today stands at his home in Switzerland. The walls of the museum are covered with Ikea's famous annual directories, the first issued in 1951. One of the rooms devoted to the second circulation. Ikea fans can instantly buy or replace old items for their free coffee. The beginnings of the first photographs document the company's customers, who tried to pack the famous flat-pack Ikea to their little Volvo, which was virtually impossible. This is documented in a museum, an exhibition of contemporary art Liljevalchs Konsthall opened this week in Stockholm to celebrate the 60th anniversary production of the first Ikea furniture. Active in the exhibition to 13 August you can see the green chair in 1951, the red sofa is typical for the seventies and the lamp of 1995. - But this is not a classic exhibition devoted design. More documented way in which we live. These furnishings are very close to many people associate with their life's experiences. It's kind of a nostalgic trip into the world of memories - says curator Steffan Bengtsson. - People recognize the furniture. From his childhood, from his apartment. I think the show will remember, "we had the table" or "Anna was a chair," and anyway, what is going on with Anna and Henia ". And so in that way - he says. All the furniture spent their retirement in the suburbs of Stockholm. Now shows up at the exhibition as a fully-fledged work of art. Could not be packed into a small Volvo Ikea showing classic shapes from the sixties, a cornucopia of colors characteristic of acute eighties or what the company called "democratic design" in the nineties, the exhibition tells the story, which he could not even tell Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea. - The story of Ingvar Kamprad does not really matter. I thought that they have a wonderful archive of Ikea, which I could go and choose her what I wanted for the exhibition. But it is not - says Bengtsson. - So we asked neighbors and friends. We gave notice in the press. It was hard, but in the end we managed to collect all these items in one place - he adds. Kamprad, known for his caricatured even saving, or lent to the exhibition one thing - the green chair in 1951, which today stands at his home in Switzerland. The walls of the museum are covered with Ikea's famous annual directories, the first issued in 1951. One of the rooms devoted to the second circulation. Ikea fans can instantly buy or replace old items for their free coffee. The beginnings of the first photographs document the company's customers, who tried to pack the famous flat-pack Ikea to their little Volvo, which was virtually impossible. Scandinavian design for industrial-scale Kamprad founded Ikeę as a teenager in 1943. Furniture company began mass producing in the fifties. Popularized the Scandinavian design - simple and functional - the industrial scale and first conquered Europe and then North America, and finally - the whole world. Bengtsson explains that Ikea is very quickly sensed the trend and created a less expensive, available for each version. - Ikea Swedish lit apartment. In the fifties, they were all in dark colors, furniture, made from exotic wood. When IKEA began to produce furniture of light wood, this had an impact on us all flat. Have become more open and hospitable - he says. At the exhibition in Stockholm, you can see it's less well-known products, such as a series of hand-crafted reproductions of eighteenth-century Swedish furniture. This made 15 years ago a series of auctions at prices comparable to those achieved real antiques. You can also catch Spice Elements such as, for example, why Ikea began in the mid seventies furniture jeans. The answer is prosaic: Kamprad bought 700 thousand. meters of materials at an exceptionally low price from the Chinese, who closed the factory. - For Ikea, everything is a matter of money - concludes Bengtsson. Scandinavian design for industrial-scale Kamprad founded Ikea as a teenager in 1943. Furniture company began mass producing in the fifties. Popularized the Scandinavian design - simple and functional - the industrial scale and first conquered Europe and then North America, and finally - the whole world. Bengtsson explains that Ikea is very quickly sensed the trend and created a less expensive, available for each version. - Ikea Swedish lit apartment. In the fifties, they were all in dark colors, furniture, made from exotic wood. When IKEA began to produce furniture of light wood, this had an impact on us all flat. Have become more open and hospitable - he says. At the exhibition in Stockholm, you can see it's less well-known products, such as a series of hand-crafted reproductions of eighteenth-century Swedish furniture. This made 15 years ago a series of auctions at prices comparable to those achieved i real antiques. You can also catch Spice Elements such as, for example, why Ikea began in the mid seventies furniture jeans. The answer is prosaic: Kamprad bought 700 thousand. meters of materials at an exceptionally low price from the Chinese, who closed the factory. - For Ikea, everything is a matter of money - concludes Bengtsson.
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