Ikea's unyielding sameness is a stabilizing force in my life, writes Holly J. Morris — but I wanted novelty anyway, at any cost. So I traveled thousands of miles to the Ikea Museum.
A true Ikea fan looks beyond what might be found at a typical U.S. Ikea home furnishing store, like this one pictured in Miami in 2015. , was frozen in its ascent to heaven, having shed its earthly cardboard-and-twine packaging. All that was missing from the display was a button to play a choir of angels.It was 2013, and I hadn't traveled from Washington, D.C., to Älmhult, Sweden — where— for subtlety.
I failed to find such an item in Prague. I failed on a press tour of a brand-new D.C.-area Ikea. A friend failed on my behalf in Madrid. Then I heard about Älmhult. After a 3.5-hour train ride from Stockholm, I arrived at the Ikea Hotell/Museum. The women at the front desk looked concerned. Their facial expressions said,"You came from America for this?"
Downstairs in the museum, I saw a graceful, spiraling assemblage of Lacks, the chosen end table of early adulthood, near a placard heralding Ikea's embrace of particleboard. I discovered that Ikea once sold pianos and inflatable furniture. I admired the modest, stewardess-y uniforms worn in the 1960s by Ikea personal shoppers.Dazed by the glory of affordable Swedish design, I wandered back to the hotel lobby, where I spotted some bins by the front desk.
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