Last weekend was a great time! Friday I saw the band Watershed play at Skully's. Hands down the best rock show I've ever been to. Saturday I drove to Austin Lake for a camping/pig roasting/rip roaring good time. It was a little chilly, but we stayed dry, ate to our hearts content and stayed up late around the bonfire. Sunday Austin, Dawn, and I drove to The Mecca of Meccas... The Walmart of Design... IKEA. I picked up a couple things, mainly for furniture construction, two sets of brushed steel cabinet legs and a set of wooden casters. Then from Pittsburgh we returned to the Lake, and I headed to Canton to visit an old friend, and made it back to Columbus by 2:00 am.

And now... I will review the best designs of IKEA.

|Tables|
Buskbo
I'm a sucker for bent plywood

IKEA/PS
The large span is cool, can't hold much weight though

Lagfors
More bent ply, adds interesting space

Magiker
Very BluDot

|Shelving|
Amiral
The hardware is great, so are the circles

Lack
I was looking for the horizontal version, but this works

Enetri
Can't beat the price $50

Rosfors
The cutouts look like retro TV's

|Other Objects|

Hackas
Real slick CD column

|Seating|
Hissbro
Like nothing I've ever seen

Allerum
Useful and tasteful

Poang
Classic

Dromminge
This thing is huge! Bigger than a sofa

Benjamin
Concise

Frosta
Nice angles, and stackable

|Lighting|
Lane
Awesome, just awesome. Super 50s

And now... The worst of IKEA. The biggest design copies! These items are CLEARLY redesigned classics.

Ehlen Johansson - Svansbro___________Marcel Breuer - Nesting Tables 1925


Mia Gammelgaard - Gubbo______________George Nelson - Coconut Chair 1955


Gillis Lundgren - Ogla_______________Michael Thonet - Era Chair pre 1900