Word: ikea
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...Flat Pack Of Lies? IKEA denied a Swedish magazine's claim that the furniture maker's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, is the world's richest man, with a $53 billion treasure chest. The firm swatted away the accolade, pointing out that the famously frugal 77-year-old no longer owned the company. Still, he should be grateful he has the assembly instructions...
...View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot a mountain of Ikea-type furniture dusted in ocher and shaped like Uluru - a supremely surreal image: Laing had the mountain flown in to a remote region of Western Australia, and the photo is untouched by any digital wand...
...Which will collapse first? Swedes quizzed about their faith in national institutions said they trusted furniture mecca IKEA more than the country's government and politicians. Look out for a self-assembly parliament...
Located on the Allston side of the Charles adjacent to Harvard Business School (HBS), One Western Avenue, in all its boxy, Ikea-like glory, creates a courtyard bordered on two sides by low-rise units, on one side by an 18-story high-rise unit and on another side by the river. A three-story wing spans, bridge-like, over the central courtyard, yielding excellent views of the river and neighboring Cambridge...
...repeat Britain's mistakes. They look instead at Sweden. It became the first European nation to split its track operations from passenger and freight services in the late 1980s, and has seen an upturn in rail traffic and a growing number of private rail operators. They include IKEA, the big furniture company, which has set up its own rail operations between Sweden and its biggest market, Germany. But elsewhere, the official reaction to liberalization is far more skeptical. No private operators have yet been granted licenses in France or Spain, even though both nations have implemented legislation that should technically...