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...RECYCLABLES 1,000 Estimated number of years a plastic shopping bag takes to decompose. About 100 million plastic bags are used annually worldwide 95% Drop in Ikea plastic-bag use in Britain after the chain began charging...
...Paper How postmodern can you be? For funky Dutch brand Moooi, Antwerp outfit Studio Job has mimicked the monumental forms of old-fashioned floor lamps, cupboards, dressers, dining tables and even chandeliers in paper and plywood. Is the Paper range flat-packing for the pretentious? Who cares? IKEA has never been this much fun. www.moooi.com...
...seem to be acutely aware of what sort of environment their children are entering when they come to Harvard. Amid all the usual anxieties about their kids’ growing up and moving out—will they succeed, will they make friends, will the linens I ordered from Ikea be long enough, and so on—there’s an extra fear for some...
...late Wiradjuri-Gamilaraay artist's final Cloud series suspended emblems of Aboriginal identity and dispossession in the same liquid-blue sky Laing sent her brides flying through. For her most recent series, the Sydney-based Laing traveled to the desert community of Balgo, where she set fire to Ikea-style furniture arranged in the shape of Uluru. "This set up a conversation between these two places," she wrote, "the histories we share, and have inherited; and where we are at this moment in time...
...construction site teems with laborers sawing wood, hammering nails and measuring angles. The tools are basic and the building plans simple, but the workers[an error occurred while processing this directive] are not what you might expect; it's a band of executives hailing from corporate heavies Whirlpool and Ikea, who've traveled to Romania from Italy and Sweden. The well-heeled workforce comes courtesy of Habitat for Humanity, a 30-year-old American-based charity that recruits volunteers to address the problem of poor housing in close to 100 countries. Initially, Habitat assigned volunteers to build simple housing...