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...feel that it’s nice to have a refuge and feel like this is home, not just a temporary dwelling,” Shemtov says. Some of the room’s elements come from IKEA and the Coop. Shemtov brought other key pieces, including the wooden screens and leather chair, from his home in New York City. “It’s the most comfortable chair ever,” Shemtov says...
...story with a female protagonist (e.g. “Kill Bill”). Similarly, Britney and her music videos are like a comfortable old sock. They feature familiar imagery: the car chase? Any Mitsubishi ad. A man’s chest glistening in a shower? Gillette. Hotel room? Ikea. But that’s why we keep on lovin’ Brit. We can buy or sell her sexuality as a memory that accompanies any shiny car or anime film or spy unitard, and feel warm and fuzzy inside for doing it. From Brit, ‘fetishized...
...further 17 openings are planned this year. Aloft is focused on attracting the road warrior, a customer who has grown up with the irreverent, friendly service of Southwest Airlines, the open office, the work-among-the-crowd Starbucks culture, and is accustomed to innovative design, via Target and Ikea, at a good price. The next generation of business travelers may have meetings with Wal-Mart in Bentonville, Ark., but they don't want to be separated from their hip, urban social lifestyle...
...owners much prefer full vessels to empty ones. Savannah has been a raw-material exporter since the days of King Cotton, and its big challenge used to be finding enough imports to fill incoming ships. Port officials solved that by persuading the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Ikea to take advantage of ample vacant land near the port (something you don't find in New York or L.A.) to build distribution centers where they could unload merchandise from overseas and ship it to stores in the U.S. Now the question is, What else can Savannah export...
...from 1989 to 1993, famously declared that his dream was for Turkey to become "a little America." And he wasn't talking about liberty. Today, Turkey is home to Europe's youngest population, and one of the world's fastest-growing consumer markets with brands like Starbucks, Topshop and Ikea booming. One brand manager told me that in his view, the country's shopping malls (60 new ones opening this year) are "paved with gold...