Ikea creates Oval Office replica

www.thelocal.se ^ | 01/15/2009 | The Local

[WesternCulture]

“..pressboard, laminate $hit IKEA tries to pass off as ‘furniture’”

- I'm poor by Swedish standards, have TWO different IKEA stores that both are about 20 minutes drive away from where I live (eastern ‘burbs of Gothenburg, Sweden) and don't care much for home decorating or spending my money on quality/trendy furniture.

Still my home is (almost) uncontaminated IKEA goods.

Many of my friends, workmates and relatives buy new (mostly “classy”, non-IKEA) furniture every month but I'm happy with having inherited wonderful pieces of genuine workmanship my grandparents (on both sides) once purchased before the IKEA expansion began.

The funny thing about it all is how such furniture from the 1930s and 1940s lately have become much sought after in my corner of the world. Not only do these older products represent a standard no Romanian/Mexican/Chinese subcontractor to IKEA ever could compete with even if they were paid 10 times as much money as they are today per piece, the same goes for many of the well renowed makers of expensive stuff trendy/upper middle class people here in Scandinavia are so found of.

Today, the Western World is stronger than ever before (despite Obama and Usama), but:

Long live REAL quality consciousness!

[WesternCulture]

Correction:

uncontaminated (BY) IKEA goods

[Future Snake Eater]

Has it been reported that anyone's opted to change races yet?

Just this guy:

[wastedyears]

Actually no, never built anything like that.

[wastedyears]

I like Sbarro’s

[wastedyears]

Pine? I think the majority of companies use pressed wood.

[GAB-1955]

Between the Ikea display, the store selling Obama mugs, and the “JOY” and “CHANGE” signs all over Union Station, I feel as if I'm in a totalitarian state. I'd dodge it, but then I get stuck with the Move On ads in the subway.

Tyranny... I has it

[Yaelle]

I just bought this Ikea office set, which is called Obaaamiska, and I fear we will be putting this desk together all weekend. Apparently it is patterned after the Clinton Oval Office desk, and there are several “george costanza-like” shelves underneath for interns of various sizes.

And the Presidential Seal rug that goes with it should not be put into the washing machine. I tried it, and the red, white, and blue all ran together. Now it looks like a tie-dyed lavender circle, and the eagle’s arrows actually peeled right off.

[rabidralph]

“Hot damn!”

[WesternCulture]

“Pine? I think the majority of companies use pressed wood.”

- Pardon my English, but this is what I've come to understand concerning the key to the legendary, extremely well kept, (almost) Beagle Boys-proof, secret of the tremendous IKEA expansion:

The secret concept of the revolutionary IKEA recycling process step by step:

1) dissolve (pressed) scrap wood products by using chemical agents found in remnants of “bodies” that never found their way out of the mazes leading to/from the meatball restaurant at the store

2) then redesign the DNA-structures of them (the wood)

3) make convenient “portions” out of the unruly pulp-product mess resulting from the process described under 2)

4) thereafter simply reshape these yielding lumps into readily re-plantable IKEA pines.

5) Add some cheap labor and expose the end result to the millions of Griswold families found all over the world and
a new IKEA process is initiated.

[WesternCulture]

“..george costanza..”

- As long as there is George Costanza there is hope.