The IKEA House. An alternative perspective on modern domestic space through commercial home models KU Leuven
An icon of the West, IKEA—the world’s largest furniture retailer—has garnered attention in various academic, pop, and artistic domains, and has also been examined in detail in the fields of economics, semiotics, branding, and marketing. Yet it seems to be still understudied from an architectural perspective; a knowledge-gap addressed by this doctoral research. By examining moments and periods of the company’s history—through literature, ...