I wish we had FENOMEN IKEA
I wish we had FENOMEN IKEA
Anyone in Hamburg reading this blog? I have a personal interest in the fact that the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg has just opened a show called FENOMEN IKEA. This is what the press release says:
FENOMEN IKEA deals with the complex field of mass production and quality, globality and national tastes, individual habits and quality of life, fashions in living and advertising, and asks questions such as: does IKEA offer good design? Where does IKEA get its ideas from? Is IKEA typically Swedish? Can living quarters be organized? Does living in a good environment mean that you live a good life? Is there such a thing as a collective IKEA experience?
Gosh, I’d love to be there. They’re focusing on early IKEA products from the 50s and 60’s, the classics from the 70’s and 80’s, and some of the PS Collection pieces too.
But I’m particularly interested in the section of the exhibition called NON IKEA, because that deals with designers’ and artists’ reactions to the IKEA phenomenon. The press release says:
NON IKEA brings together some 25 works of art and design objects by international designers and artists. These objects take up the concepts, materials and products of IKEA and create something completely new out of them: taking aesthetic principles to extremes, introducing new functions, alienating the designs to make them subversive and provocative.
And guess what? My I Wish we Had IKEA tea towels and cushions are on show too! I believe there are some for sale as well. If you’re in Hamburg and go to see this show, I’d love to hear all about it!
adele young
Wow, this is awesome! Congrats on having your work showcased. Wish I could see the retro IKEA items!
Arren Williams
Very cool! I actually had the chance to stay at the Ikea hotel and visit the Ikea museum in Almhult, Sweden, a few years back. It was quite the wall-to-wall Ikea experience!
mashadutoit
That is so cool, Heather! The secret life of tea towels. Do you know how it ended up being submitted in that show?
Jesse
Very cool! I'd love to see the NON IKEA section – I hope some of it pops up online. (Ikea Hacker being one of my longtime fave blogs…)
Anna Betts
Wow this is so exciting! I wish I could see it in real life, congrats on having your tea towels shown 🙂
Heather Moore
Thanks, guys! Masha, my things are on the show cos they asked me to send 'em. I wasn't really sure what it was all about until someone mailed me to say that she'd seen them on the exhibition.
Kaylovesvintage
I will go there in December, let's see if I can take a picture for you
Anonymous
wow I was just at Ikea yesterday and got the 2010 catalog – it is a mess!. There is no direction and it is just hodge podge, kinda like bad 70's when sentimentalism met modernism. I am sure 2011 will be wonderful though 🙂 I think that they just kept adding and stretching a concepts till they made no sense and this will force a rethink. But for now not at all as clean, lovely and well designed as your towels! congrats.Melinda
Ansie
Wow Heather! That is such a compliment and a great recognition of your talents! Congractulations! If I were you, I would be pretty chaffed now!
lisa stubbs
wow, sounds fantastic wish I could visit the exhibition too!Love your wish we had IKEA cushions fantastic!
Janne
That is such great news! I'm so excited for you!
helene magnusson
Congratulations ! Always thinking about you when it comes to Ikea now…
Anonymous
Hi, i actually saw the ikea exhibition last weekend in hamburg. I was a bit disappointed about the exhibition itself (too positive for my taste) but I was really excited to see your dish towels in the “non ikea” section since I already new them from various blogs and of course your own blog.) unfortunately there were not for sale there (at least I didn't see it) (when I saw them in the hall I hoped so much there very for sale because I wanted to buy them already several times but so far the payment and shipping to germany seemed to complicated to me…)