IKEA’s New Range Turns Home Items Into Art, And You Can Test Them In Your Space
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If you’ve been looking to incorporate more art into your home, consider adding furniture or accessories that double as statement pieces. It’s a powerful way to tie a space together, even if you only have a small area to work with.
IKEA’s products are essentials in many homes, but the Swedish furniture giant is now amping things up by reimagining them as functional art. The 2021 IKEA Art Event Collection features the spins of six multidisciplinary artists from around the world on domestic objects like the wall clock, sconces, and lamps. The items are deliberately minimal, serving as canvases for the creators’ styles.
By combining aspects of art and design, IKEA hopes shoppers can find a piece they resonate with and “feel emotionally attached to.”
“For the next IKEA Art Event, we focus on the sweet spot between art and functional objects,” explains Henrik Most, Creative Leader at IKEA of Sweden. “The duality of non-functional objects and everyday design opens up for a new kind of products, which both serves peoples functional needs and emotional aspirations,” says Henrik Most, Creative Leader at IKEA of Sweden.
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Sabine Marcelis, a Rotterdam-based industrial designer, created a pair of wall sconces with a glow in the middle as an experiment of light and color.
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Stockholm art studio Humans since 1982 playfully reinterpreted the insect box with miniature drones.
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New York artist Daniel Arsham looked to his 2011 installation, Falling Clock, as inspiration for a wall clock wrapped in fabric-like material. “It appears to be in a frozen state where it’s manipulating the idea of architecture. It’s almost as the clock has peeled itself off the wall and brought a little bit of the surface with it,” he describes.
Tokyo-based 3D design duo Gelchop drew upon iconic IKEA silhouettes of the Allen key as basis for a table lamp and a torch.
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Stefan Marx, an illustrator from Berlin, provided two typographic designs: a vase with “I’m so so so sorrryyyy” scribbled underneath and a throw blanket reading, “I wait here for you forever as long as it takes.”
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The items will be transformed into an AR effect so customers can test them at home ahead of their launch in April.
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