Ikea Finally Recalls Millions of Its Deadly Dressers
After a string of both deaths and consumer complaints about the risk of its dressers tipping over and causing injury, Ikea is recalling 29 million dressers.
IKEA Works With UN to Provide 10,000 Temporary Homes for Syrian Refugees
Although Ben Carson might have us believe otherwise, many refugees living in camps around the world are struggling to survive.
Wanna Put Your Relationship Through Its Paces? Try IKEA!
Sometimes, you look at a romantic partner, and you think, “I’m really feeling this, but how do I know if Snugglepants here is really along for the ride?” Well, if you’re looking for a relationship stress test, you could do worse than a trip to your local IKEA.
IKEA Now Offers Virtual Weddings (Some Assembly Required)
The dream of the 90s is alive: You can still get legit married in a virtual ceremony! You haven’t missed your chance! All this technology, it is all for you! From IKEA! Because the company that you associate with cheap furniture, Allen wrenches and hours of frustration is now in the wedding game.
A First Look at the Beautiful New Furniture IKEA's Bringing To the U.S.
I'll admit it: I love what IKEA's been up to lately. They're making high-tech however affordable desks. They're reissuing simple but sophisticated midcentury modern designs. And now, they're bringing a whole slew of drop dead gorgeous furniture to the United States, much of which is made of solid wood. I love it.
This Dude Hilariously Recreated Sia's "Chandelier" Music Video in Ikea
Okay, I absolutely have a soft spot for "Chandelier" parody videos. For some reason it never gets old watching dudes and SNL's Kate McKinnon don a leotard and Sia's signature wig and really go for gold in an attempt to emulate Maddie Ziegler's fantastic and kind of creepy choreography from the original music video. …
Tumblr Proves Ikea is Actually a Time-Travelling Vampire of Some Sort
Are you ready to have your mind freaked? As usual, some crazy shit on Tumblr is here to do it for you.
Ikea Is Pretty Sure You Need a Puppy to Go With That Billy Bookcase
As part of a clever campaign, animal rescue organizations are partnering with Ikea and other furniture stores to promote adoption. Because what that Ektorp really needs is a floppy-eared puppy slumbering smack in the middle.
Ikea Removes Lesbians From Its Russian Catalog
The unfortunate birthplace of your entire bedroom set, Ikea, has removed a feature about a lesbian couple from the Russian edition of its magazine. Sound familiar? However, this time Ikea is saying they preemptively removed the couple to comply with the Russian ban on "homsexual propaganda".
Alfonso Cuarón's Ikea Is Several Times More Terrifying Than Gravity
Life in Ikea is impossible. Truer words.
Ikea's Moose Meat Lasagna Joins the Club of Meat that's Contaminated with Other Meat
Ikea. Girl. I think it's time that we had a talk about how you keep making one kind of meat out of a completely different kind of meat. First, we found out that you kept making your Swedish meatballs out of horse and now it turns out that your moose meat lasagna is mixed up with pork. Now, as has been previously…
Your Favorite Food (This Time, IKEA Meatballs) Is Probably Made of Horse Meat
You may think that you'd never eat horse meat, but the truth is that you love it and can't get enough of it. "More horse meat," your brain and tummy cry whenever you get hungry or just want a snack because, as it turns out, horse meat is in everything. Hamburgers? Horse meat! Ravioli? Horse meat. Water? Super thin,…
Ikea Monkey's Name Is Darwin, He's Now Living Happily at a Sanctuary
This past Sunday, a seven-month-old rhesus macaque, wearing a solitary Ugg boot as a jacket, was found wandering an Ikea parking lot in Toronto. It caused quite a stir as you don't see a primate in a baby-sized shearling coat roaming through Grönkulla towel sets and Knutstorp wicker baskets everyday.
This ingenious Saudi Arabian IKEA-inspired Tumblr replaces famous women — like Anne Frank — with furniture.
IKEA Photoshops Women Out of Its Saudi Arabia Catalog
People in the U.S. and 41 other countries around the globe scour IKEA catalogs to find the exact same cheap, simple furniture with hard-to-pronounce Swedish names, but the company's Saudi Arabian customers have a different shopping experience: there are no women to be found amongst the images of Grundtal shelves and…
Did IKEA Once Use East German Political Prisoners to Make Its Sofas?
The thought of IKEA brings up complex emotions in many of us. On the one hand, their furniture is affordable and reasonably attractive, and always seems to fit that spot where you need a shelf. On the other hand, wandering aimlessly through their giant stores is a special kind of retail hell, their furniture tends to…
What Is IKEA Doing Spying on Its Employees and Angry Customers?
IKEA seems so friendly and efficient and non-threatening—unless you consider taking over the décor of houses worldwide to be aesthetically threatening—but it seems there might be a darker side to everyone's go-to furniture retailer. The Swedish company is being investigated in France for hiring private detectives to…
Soon You Will Buy Your House From IKEA
For many of us, it already feels like the entire inside of our house is decorated with things from IKEA, so wouldn't it be convenient if you could take the next step and just buy an entire prefab house from IKEA? Well, soon that dream will be a reality. They've collaborated with Ideabox, an architectural firm, to…
Old People Go Looking For Love At Shanghai's IKEA
If you think of IKEA only as a place to get lost and then end up spending way more money than you meant to, you should start thinking outside of the flat-pack cardboard box. That's what senior citizens in Shanghai are doing, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, they've managed to turn their local IKEA into a…
Worth It: You Have To Sit On Something
Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily…
