Speaking of furniture....Ikea? Is it junk?

I've broken 2 ikea beds... They don't like routine workouts. The corners like to give out.

 

It is not my intention to knock Ikea. However, any furniture that has any composite construction at all will not hold a screw for long, will absorb moisture, and will burn well in your fireplace after very little use.

 

When I stop laughing at the absurdity of that, I might just get angry. Nope. Not salient enough for that.

 

Excellent!. Perceptive. There are uses for everything. If you are young, newly married, working your way up, good choice. However, Ikea is a design innovator. Their kitchen items and bedroom closet organizers are superb. They are not designed to take abuse. Composites are OK in the kitchen and for closets. Back to my third sentence.

 

Sure!

 

Whats sad is that the only furniture made in the US is exhorbatantly priced Henradon. Possibly Stickley.
Century, Thomasville and the rest now import most of their stuff.
The furniture factories in North Carolina have mostly shut down.
I searched for about 2 years to find new and used US made stuff but it was well worth it.

I am in favor of protectionism because if given a free choice most will whore out our country to save a buck and then whine when their job is outsourced overseas.

 

What portion did you find absurb? Why would you get angry? Are you normally salient? Have I asked enough questions of you yet?

 

Not entirely true.

The Eames chair and ottoman in our living room first came out in 1956. The Corbu lounge next to it is a 1928 design...

 

and with that...i'm on my way to ikea after work today...

 

I was just going to say, as far as furniture I think the "modern" designs have had a slow evolution since the 1930's as the industrial counterpart to the Futurism art movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(art)

 

I have to totally disagree that Ikea things break durring a move. I just bought a massive load of stuff to fill in what I didn't have for my new apartment. I put it all together before hand, and then moved it in here. This place is 7 stories up, and the elevators are tiny. I did it all with the help of a clumsy friend and the only things that went to hell when I tried to move them were from Crate and Barrel. The Ikea stuff is sitting there happily right now, without an issue at all.

 

Should I have said "commodity" instead of "modern"? I wasn't referring to a style movement, but what the average person has in their home. Not everyone decorates with $5,000 chairs