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Brand on a mission: IKEA teams up with NASA to imagine homes on Mars
4 October 2017Letter from Älmhult: Cate St Hill visits IKEA’s 'House of Curiosity' in the remote Swedish village where the brand began, to talk about upcoming designs and collaborations — including their expansion into space
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IKEA’s new museum in Älmhult
1 March 2017The giant home-furnishings’ chain IKEA has opened its own museum, in what was the company’s very first store, in the Swedish town of Älmhult. But does it present a look at how this global phenomenon has developed and operates, bringing reasonably priced Swedish design to everyone, or is it little more than camouflaged marketing?
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London Design Festival: Tylko
23 November 2015Emerging Warsaw-based start-up Tylko suggests how we might all be purchasing furniture in the future — with the use of an augmented reality app. Cate St Hill tests it out
