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The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created. The name refers to Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer IKEA, which sells many items of furniture that require assembly.
The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms
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.
Henry Eeles Dresser was the eldest son of Henry Dresser and Eliza Ann Garbutt; he had five sisters and three brothers. His father intended him to take over the family business in the Baltic timber trade so took him out of school in Bromley and sent him to Ahrensburg in 1852, to learn German and in 1854, to Gefle and Uppsala to study Swedish.
Swedish drawer (1921-2020) Sweden: 1921-02-24 2020-10-15 Stockholm: Q25744482: 1 Britta Lou Miller: WWII veteran of the Women's Army Corps (1923-2020) United States of America: 1923-02-17 2020-04-25 South Vienna: Riverside Methodist Hospital: Q95889576: 0 Britta Svenson: researcher Finland: 1932-06-21 2020-02-07 Q99753899: 1 Brittany Bruner ...