1st Edition
Unpacking IKEA Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses
By Pauline Garvey
Copyright 2018
174 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frantic popularity of this one iconic transnational store. Based on a year of participant observation in Stockholm’s Kungens Kurva store – the largest in the world - this book places the retailer squarely within the realm of the home-building efforts of... Read more
1. Unpacking Ikea
2. Benign Intervention: Ikea Showrooms as Tableaux-Vivant
3. Home Staging, Housing Theatre: Design, Domesticity and the People’s Home
4. Standardisation, Democracy and Equality: design for the Many People
5. Storage Solutions, Clutter and Containment
6. Still Life? Circulation, Mobility and Emotion
7. Epilogue: Design Dispersed
Biography
Pauline Garvey is senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.
