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".
Life in Ikea is impossible. Truer words.
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…
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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, wet…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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 spy …
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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…
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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 hot …
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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…
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Everyone knows that men are like whining children. Or at least that's the premise of Mänland, a "male-oriented" holding area that was recently tested by an Ikea store in Sydney, Australia. Any resemblance to the children's play area, Småland, is not at all coincidental.
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The founder of IKEA — which once seemed like the most wholesome of all multinational companies — was apparently a Nazi. At this point, basically every retail chain is tainted with some sort of scandal. Here's a helpful guide.
The Italian newspaper Il Giornale, owned by Silvio Berlusconi, has taken exception to an Ikea ad depicting a gay couple. An editorial asked, "What's behind all this? It's not awareness of gay rights for gay couples. It's just a brazen marketing strategy." Also, according to the Daily Mail,
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We're not sure what makes this Austrian Ikea commercial less likely to air in the US: the fact that it gleefully depicts infidelity, or its suggestion that male bisexuality exists.
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To film a commercial, IKEA released 100 cats in its Wembley, England store after hours. Shoppers were "unaware that half an hour before, 100 felines were roaming free in the shop" ...until they found a hairball in their new bedspread.
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[Sydney, January 31. Image via Getty]
