Every year IKEA launches a PS Collection that is fun and quirky and this year isn’t any different. (The PS stands for Post Scriptum). From April 1 the Swedish company will sell 51 items including a lamp that has a certain exploding death star quality about it and a bench that doubles as balance beam. Here’s the information IKEA has released:
“IKEA PS 2014 is for a home in constant motion, always ready for new situations and furniture needs. You could say it is design that moves you — to live more simply and do more in the space you have. IKEA PS 2014 brings flexibility and an unconventional way of living to everyone, by combining form, function, quality, sustainability and a low price.
‘Today, for the first time ever, more people live in cities than in the countryside. They move more often and live in smaller spaces. But they still dream of a beautiful, functional home that perfectly fits their lives. And perhaps most importantly, they have less money to spend. These global insights have inspired the IKEA PS 2014 collection. “We’ve chosen to devise a series of products that offer cutting-edge design that remains affordable,” says Peter Klinkert, Project Manager for the IKEA® PS collections. The IKEA PS 2014 collection doesn’t include any core functional pieces such as sofas or beds. Rather, it responds to the way young people live by focusing on design that you can move around and use in different ways. “These are multifunctional designer objects that involve us in the design conversation, depending on where we place them and how we use them.”
The IKEA PS 2014 collection targets creative young urbanites. Therefore, it was important that it was designed by the very same creative young urbanites. And to truly make the collection globally relevant it was essential that the creative team included designers from every corner of the globe. A team of young designers was chosen to work closely with IKEA’s own in-house designers to bring IKEA PS 2014 to life.”
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