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A man assembling an IKEA Poäng chair. Rather than being sold pre-assembled, much of IKEA's furniture is designed to be assembled by the customer. The company claims that this helps reduce costs and use of packaging by not shipping air; the volume of a bookcase, for example, is considerably less if it is shipped unassembled rather than assembled.
By the 2013 edition, 12% of imagery for the IKEA catalogue, brochures and website was computer-generated. [3] As of 2014, 75% of product images (i.e. white background images) and 35% of non-product images across all IKEA communications are fully computer-generated. [10] Augmented reality was introduced in the 2013 edition of the catalogue.
The Japanese designer, Noboru Nakamura , created the original "Poem" chair in 1975 in collaboration with product manager Lars Engman, who later headed up the IKEA design team. [3] [4] [5] The design of both the Poem and Poäng chairs resemble that of the "Armchair 406," created by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto in 1939.
IKEA's nomenclature conventions name upholstered furniture after places in Sweden. The Klippan sofa is named after Klippan Municipality in Southern Sweden. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Klippan was developed by IKEA's product developer and head of design Lars Engman and designer Noboru Nakamura. [ 3 ]
Dining chair, designed to be used at a dining table; typically, dining chairs are part of a dining set, where the chairs and table feature similar or complementary designs. The oldest known depiction of dining chairs is a seventh-century BCE bas-relief of an Assyrian king and queen on very high chairs. [20]
In October 2012, IKEA was criticized in Sweden for airbrushing women out of pictures in catalogues used in Saudi Arabia. [35] In October 2017, a Chinese IKEA commercial, showing a mother scolding her daughter for not "bringing home a boyfriend", was criticized by netizens for "sexist" and discrimination against singles and single women in China.