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An unassembled IKEA flat-pack stool. Ready-to-assemble furniture (RTA), also known as knock-down furniture (KD), flat-pack furniture, or kit furniture, is a form of furniture that requires customer assembly. The separate components are packed for sale in cartons which also contain assembly instructions and sometimes hardware.
An office chair, or desk chair, is a type of chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is usually a swivel chair , with a set of wheels for mobility and adjustable height. Modern office chairs typically use a single, distinctive load bearing leg (often called a gas lift ), which is positioned underneath the chair seat.
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 .
Scott Matthew Seiss (/ s iː s /; born March 15, 1994) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and TikToker.He is best known for his repeated portrayal on TikTok of an angry retail worker popularly referred to as the Angry IKEA Guy [1] or Angry Retail Guy.
Mikael Ohlsson is the former president of the Swedish furniture store chain, IKEA. [1] Ohlsson has worked for IKEA for 30 years, starting off in the carpet department in the Linköping store. He started his assignment as head of the company on 1 September 2009 [ 2 ] Ohlsson is married and has one daughter and two sons.
The IKEA Museum is a museum located in Älmhult, Sweden, that opened to the public on June 30, 2016. [1] It presents the history of the Swedish furnishing company IKEA . [ 2 ] It replaced IKEA Through the Ages (located in the Corporate Culture Center 'Tillsammans'), a smaller 800 m 2 exhibition that showed 20 different room settings with IKEA ...
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.
The building uses about 10% of the energy used for ventilation by buildings of a comparable size. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Pearce left Zimbabwe in 2000 as a result of the conflict in his home country [ 1 ] and worked in Australia, where he co-designed Council House 2 (CH 2 ) in Melbourne, among other buildings.