The Materialisation of Bauhaus in IKEA’s Democratic Design KU Leuven
Since 1995, when it was coined for Milan Design week by Lennart Ekmark, IKEA’s design director, Democratic Design has been disseminated assiduously. This new term catalysed the corporate mythology of the idyllic vision of ‘design for everyone’, which was created, professed and reiterated by the company.From the 1960s, while the concept seeds were discernible in the founder’s words until the 1990s when the homonymous publication was launched, ...