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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 .
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.
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.
Micke Grove Regional Park is a 132-acre public park located in Lodi, California. Founded by the Micke family, the park was donated to San Joaquin County in 1938. Park features include the Micke Grove Zoo , the San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum , and several gardens.
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 McCartney brothers also have a sister named Ruth whom their father Jim adopted in 1964 when he married her mother, Angela Williams. Mike McCartney married Angela Fishwick on 7 June 1968 [12] and they had three daughters: Benna, Theran, and Abigail Faith; they later divorced.