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This special issue of TIME is devoted to design, particularly the influence of the past. Of course one need look no further than iMacs and Ikea furniture to see that good design has been widely available for many years (the March 20, 2000, cover of TIME called the rebirth of design "commodity chic"). But why are creators of fashion, home and industrial design suddenly looking back for inspiration? Maybe the '50s era appeals to Americans because it was the last time we felt truly optimistic. As design guru Murray Moss says, it's the values of that decade that draw...
...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...