my piece on vintage IKEA is in the August issue of GQ. Kansas City Royals minority owner Patrick Maholmes is on the cover.
It is online now too:
https://www.gq.com/story/vintage-ikea-is-cool
https://www.gq.com/story/vintage-ikea-is-cool
Please buy and read, or read and buy. Who knew IKEA (capitalized anagram like RAND or ZOUO) had so much wild shit in the archives? My favorite is the Panton chair in the story—there is a lot of cool stuff also on pamono.com, but it’s all in Europe. Some other IKEA pieces I found researching the piece, that didn’t make it in:
Nice colors, almost kid room shit. This one is cool too:
These lamps also not bad:
From Japan^. Researching the story I also found a Vico Magistretti Telegono lamp that was carried by IKEA for a year (1970) but not produced by IKEA:
Here is the proof:
I really believe to truly be a successful furniture journalist you need a working knowledge of Italiano(1). What a lamp!
Thanks for reading.
Snake
(1) Italian.