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The IKEA Lack table in white. The Lack (stylized as LACK) is a table manufactured by IKEA since 1981. [1] Modifications.
By the 2013 edition, 12% of imagery for the IKEA catalogue, brochures and website was computer-generated. [3] As of 2014, 75% of product images (i.e. white background images) and 35% of non-product images across all IKEA communications are fully computer-generated. [10] Augmented reality was introduced in the 2013 edition of the catalogue.
In October 2012, IKEA was criticized in Sweden for airbrushing women out of pictures in catalogues used in Saudi Arabia. [35] In October 2017, a Chinese IKEA commercial, showing a mother scolding her daughter for not "bringing home a boyfriend", was criticized by netizens for "sexist" and discrimination against singles and single women in China.
IKEA adapted its store location and services to the 'inner-city' format for expansion in China, unlike other countries where IKEA stores for economic and planning restriction reasons tends to be just outside city centres. In China, planning restrictions are less of an issue due to the lack of cars for much of its customer base.
A shelf can be attached to a wall or other vertical surface, be suspended from a ceiling, be a part of a free-standing frame unit, or it can be part of a piece of furniture such as a cabinet, bookcase, entertainment center, headboard, and so on. Usually, two to six shelves make up a unit, each shelf being attached perpendicularly to the ...
A light shelf is a horizontal surface that reflects daylight deep into a building. Light shelves are placed above eye-level and have high-reflectance upper surfaces, which reflect daylight onto the ceiling and deeper into the space. Light shelves are typically used in high-rise and low-rise office buildings, as well
The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created. The name refers to Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer IKEA , which sells many items of furniture that require assembly .
The acronym IKEA is made up of the initials of his name (Ingvar Kamprad) plus those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd where he was raised. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] Between the founding of IKEA and his board resignation in 1946, Kamprad was an author.