Ikea knows that more and more customers are They "hack" or change the appearance of their furniture and even reinvent them, to give them a different use than the one for which they were designed. In order to take advantage of this trend, it has announced the opening of an open platform that will promote the creation of this type of furniture.
Students at London's Royal College of Art University already contribute their ideas to exploring the possibilities of a first product. It is a unit that can take the form of a sofa or a bed. It will be part of «Delaktig», a "hackable" furniture collection that the company hopes to launch in 2018.
Many customers were looking outside of Ikea for ideas to customize Ikea furniture. Also many companies that knew how to see the business and today sell accessories and accessories to customize said furniture. The fronts, handles and legs Superfront are just one example of this.
"People do hacking anyway, so we want to push that idea from within, ”explained James Futcher, creative director of the Swedish giant. With this idea, Ikea will launch the "Delaktig" products, multipurpose furniture easy to customize, which will adapt to current urban life.
The goal is that customers can adapt the design from their homes to different stages or situations. How? Through a series of pieces that will turn a basic product into something different. The furniture will thus be much more modular and transformable, adapting to new trends.
As we have already mentioned, the first product in this collection will be a sofa. An easily customizable piece of furniture to adapt to any space or even change role over time. It can be modified to become a bed and other elements such as a table or a lamp can be incorporated.
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