Plataforma Surtido is an organization of emerging Spanish designers who work together on different projects and exhibit the results to the public. Their recent endeavor, Surtido de Mutaciones, examines what would happen if 35 designers looked at IKEA as a supplier of raw parts and used those materials to create new products. In this collaborative Spanish version of Ikeahacker, every part used in the exhibition had to come from the Swedish megastore...
Hm, not as impressed as I thought I was going to be. The results looked like a hodge-podge of ikea parts instead of real products that hold their own weight. Neat concept tho.
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Yeah, I've seen better-looking results on IKEA Hacker.
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Yeah I agree with that comment. They all look like weird furniture you'd find at Goodwill rather than art objects. That might be the nature of Ikea though.
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The glove in the glass is cool.
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I agree with slowdown - ikeahacker often has much better stuff. The idea of the exhibition is sound, it's just that, sadly, the artists weren't talented enough.
To see what a true artist can do with ubiquitous pieces of cheap mass-produced furniture, check out the work of Brian Jungen:
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001819.php
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i can barely tell the difference between these tables and the tables that they already sell at ikea. however... when all you have to work with is ikea parts (which always SCREAM ikea) the end result is still going to look something like an ikea concept piece...
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ikeahacker is much better, although I do really like the task lamp chandelier and the ladder back chair.
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