DIY ‘designers’ see the furnishings as raw material to repurpose
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Winnie Lam thought on foods, as their Chocolate Sundae Toppings Fußbank, designed by a few bags of cotton pompoms hot glue, a stool Ikea. Look at pictures of what some ingenious handymen have done, with what you bought at Ikea. “He came from the top down in a ball of ice one day,” said Lam, 31, Product Manager at Google. When he has a thin blond electric guitar from a table pine Ikea, Alex Csiky, 43, was wearing, as it is increasingly a raspberry souffle guitar at the same time, industry and great sound . Domanic Christine, 28, an artist who has found inspiration for their rolling stock in the bank-Sex ads in magazines in the city. Your reference Viennese charm - a wooden bench with grease pink festooned gehäkelt tubes - was from a table of old Ikea, the son of 60 pulls and uses the filling of a sofa left on street on their trash nowadays. Lam, Csiky Domanic and has never been, but they are connected by a world - and quite informal - known as the collective management Ikea pirates. This do-it-yourselfers, technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, handymen and product designers and furniture are united by a common vision on the products from Ikea, 60, whose style has megabrand Swedish mix salon Europe and Malaysia (it - At least 265 agencies in 35 countries). They overlook a shelf of Billy Ikea or varnish and the table do not see a finished object, but also the raw materials: a range of nostalgia own to honour or repurposed. “I think there is a movement around all the products that are available - this current world situation - and make crafts with them and rebuild,” said Michael Zbyszynski, 36, deputy director of the music, composition and pedagogy From the University of California, Berkeley. Its chopped is a loudspeaker array of Ikea red plastic salad bowls. “It’s all about what does not offered for sale as it is,” said Zbyszynski, “to be done, and not just a” paint by numbers “of your life.” Ikea-Pirates recently have gained salonniere Yap Mei Mei, a 37-year-old writer, life Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and works for an advertising agency. Yap is named Jules, Ikea for the chair she loves. It has no connection with the proposed mammoth Swedish furniture manufacturer, and is not - she said by telephone from his home - particularly handy. But over the years their old blog, ikeahacker.blogspot.com, it has a forum for those who are very helpful. With a watchful eye and an open heart, Yap has a lexicon of Ikea hijackings by trawling crafts and design Web sites and rating of personal invitation. It Hacks, kitsch useful, as Sara Madole’s bright, green, rolling the cat litter in the area. Madole, 27, a graduate of the law school, said she builds the distribution of two-Box Ikea snack box. Some of the hijackings engineering are as simple as $ 6.99 table lamp reimagined Ikea wall-the wall of fire, shelves made of stainless steel or revision of the coffee table. The floor is behind Hack, Shoshana, like Berger, editor of the magazine Ready Made him, the language of computer use, as in “penetration on mainframes.” “The idea is that you get through the back door,” said Leblanc, “and inventing what is everything.” |