Archive for January, 2010

Ikea joins NBTA Europe - CIT Magazine

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Ikea joins NBTA Europe
CIT Magazine
Ikea’s global meetings and travel manager is among the first appointments to NBTA Europe’s advisory board. The new association has appointed Ikea Group
NBTA Europe Initiates Advisory Board Appointments Business Travel News

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This tiny house (Yale Daily News)

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

When Elizabeth Turnbull SOM ’11 FES ’11 was accepted to the University’s MBA-MEM degree program in March 2008, she didn’t bother applying for housing, hunting for apartments or going anywhere near Ikea. Instead, Turnbull bought graph paper and started sketching her dream home.

Are Museums Using Enough Protection? (Gothamist)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

In light of the recent Picasso accident at the Met, it’s sort of nerve-racking to see a masterpiece like this out in the open, no? One blogger recently spotted this painting being unloaded at the Guggenheim during lunchtime, noting how it “is only clad in plastic wrapping and the 2 handlers look about as professional as the college stoners I used to hire to move my Ikea furniture in a minivan …

Hot ticket: Bid on a bedroom (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

There’s more than one way to get an Ikea bedroom. You can already buy one, but now you can bid on one. The behemoth Bloomington furnishings store is slated to begin a three-month remodeling of its showroom level Feb. 1. But before the renovation kicks off, the retailer plans to auction two complete bedroom settings — one for adults, with furniture and accessories valued at $4,500; one a teen …

IKEA’s Burbank store and the guerrillas in housewares (Los Angeles Times)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

For reasons known only to the pop-culture gods, IKEA — the Swedish retailer of cheap, lingonberry-flavored furniture and other shinola — has suddenly become a ubiquitous presence in the ether. Example: in August, when the 2010 IKEA catalog came out, people went utterly bonkers because the designers had changed the print font from the familiar Futura to Verdana — an esoteric difference, to be …

Exchange Dresses For Bridal Event At IKEA (WCPO Cincinnati)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

IKEA is holding a dress drive benefiting Kenzie’s closet.

Exchange Dresses For Bridal Event At IKEA (The Kentucky Post)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

WEST CHESTER, Ohio — If you have any extra prom dresses, bridesmaid dress or any dresses at all, IKEA is holding a dress drive to benefit a local dress organization Tuesday afternoon.

Gustav desk with Billy shelves

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Jessica pairs the Gustav writing desk with a hack on the Billy extension units. And it worked out perfectly.

She says, “Living in a small house, my husband and I recently found that the Gustav writing desk was a perfect replacement for a desk that was way to big for the space.  The Gustav fit perfectly [...]

IKEA Embraces Sustainability as a Never Ending Job and a Never Ending List (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

IKEA is dedicated to helping create a better world where we all take care of the environment, the earth’s resources and each other. But being a company who takes care of all these things is not often easy.

IKEA Embraces Sustainability as a Never Ending Job and a Never Ending List (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

IKEA Embraces Sustainability as a Never Ending Job and a Never Ending List