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Yes, mbrewer, doors. Someone does not know how to correctly put the links in the emails they send. OR? They wanted to gin up fake page views here by linking to a formerly proven very popular topic! But that is farfetched and highly unlikely. Even so: a bitter pill as I leave still with not one plausible option at hand for -these damn doors.

O Negative Ones, I'm confounded - all these downers, do you also go to WALLPAPER, AZURE, Design Bureau & OBJEKT to complain about the original designs that inspire IKEA? If everyone decided to speak up when they disliked something, I think the whole site would have to be put out of it's misery.

A boarding announcement? Hmmm... what legendary Designer and Architect is known for his ubiquitous airport seating that you can still find after decades of use- because of the quality and incredible comfort?

Most of these designs are echoes of what has been out there for the last couple of years- the jumbled dresser is now a design solid (probably through Established & Sons), the couch is a chillaxian echo of the new interpretations of Le Corbu's w/the shocking new colors on metal and cushion, along with Herman Miller (?) putting out collections of MCM classics -for outdoors. The metal chairs appear so very much like a Bertoia Diamond ran headlong into his Bird Chair: and so we get twice the metal & a finer mesh! Yay, etc... as usual, IKEA pays attention and pops out both recent huge design wins or classics as soon as they can figure out how to offer us a lovely or daring thing that is well above the quality of a Tarbluh or Walnoot and yet still affordable.

The wall storage, I may cover the inserts with leather or burlap just to tone down the color. My space can't take any more visual noise, but I love the cubes. Wish the inserts were galvanized metal.

I alo plan on honing the stumpy legs on the dresser and am relieved they did not attempt this other award-winning dresser that pops to mind: one which had all the drawers freely a'jumble and held together with a huge leather strap. Assemble that!

I'm beside myself. I crave spartan to the core: as in Hideyuki Nakayama's O House. I adore that look. Yet I find myself in love with every single inch of Barry's home. Well done!

Mr. Mascarelli had the soul of an artist to pull together another man's vision: to his total delight, his dream home.

I don't have two extra nickels to rub together (quite the opposite) so I must note how grateful I am that Apt Therapy Inc. came around and clipped some comments from here. It's obvious some folks were quite rude and I'm hoping the many aren't judged for the few.

If you want to know the 'true, historical neighborhoods of Los Angeles' there's an odd fellow who has deeply researched & then mapped them out himself -and his many cartography creations are perusable and more; people have nearly come to blows over where the neighborhood lines are drawn, so take care if you go to the gallery! (I joke)

Stunning.

I couldn't have kids; anyone want to send me an ipad before I'm all alone eating cold beans from a tin it took 3 days to open? Oh darn- that was Tuesday night. Roont again.

I just love everything here - how can so much "stone" be in a place that is such a cozy refuge? Don't know, but it sure is. Thank you for sharing!

I truly like your sense of gratitude. I sure wish I had your sense of organization! Yet that goes for the best of the small submissions, I suppose. Thanks for sharing.

re: JustBekky

Sometimes I think that when I see a tricked out Bentley vehicle on the road but not when I see a creation by Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen or the like. The architects, designers- some great artists.

Sometimes a chair isn't just a chair. And these pieces do stand the test of time. So it would seem that except for your 'time out' wooden chair, you seem to agree with the 'non-fakes' crowd. And frankly, a solidly built chair is getting harder and harder to find as WalMarts push crap & what was once our $50 solid chair has long been lost all over America.

But I don't think that you're here to conversate, from your tone - acquiring a few pieces of art in one's lifetime does not mean that one is trying to 'look any part' at all.

Yes, some people insist that art can only be paintings and sculptures. Maybe you are of that crowd? Given the choice, I'd want to live in an isolated area in a wee home of maybe 400 square feet, with an Eames Lounger, my expensive (admittedly medical) bed - but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the majesty of some of the architecture going up around the world or the innovation (Bjarke's BIG work, let's say)... but if you can't see art where art is, I don't know what to say.

The Eames were part of an Arts and Crafts movement. I don't denigrate the Crafts & take it away from Art. Just sayin' ...mate.

Peace.

Most ironic post to bump into ever. I just woke up trying to scream but was choking on a mouthful of blood. 30 mins or so later and I'm still shaking. I know all the monkey tricks and have tried them all, I'm no spring flower. Some people sleep better from sheer luck, some sleep poor from a spate of bad luck & all the advice in the world changes nothing. A job that brings 6 beds helps, I imagine: cool.

Background: I was born with deformations in my skeleton, endured many painful medical procedures the first several years of my life. Also- I've been in several car accidents (not once was I at fault) spanning all the way from one that included a back injury when I was in kindergarten (you could say Mom opted out of MADD) and the last accident being in 2008 when Arthur just blazed through a red light in his SUV and totaled the old, wee car I was in.

All of that is to say that to get a night's sleep without pain is near impossible.

I scrimped, saved & went without to get:

1) a profoundly high quality mattress for the pain and 2) maybe a base akin to a hospital bed as I grew angry and impatient at how often the pain would make it such an effort to get up at all. If you're under 45 and can imagine spending sometimes 30-50 minutes struggling to rise in the morning- often in tears- I commend your vivid imagination for I hope you aren't in the actual know.

So now I own a bed frame that mechanically lifts me and on what I thought for months was a Tempurpedic.

Which I have since been told that a Tempurpedic can not do: be manipulated on a bedframe such as this... *sigh

But the mattress w/the mechanical base was mixed in and surrounded by Tempurpedics, the exposed parts look exactly like one (that foam yellow stuff, etc) & when I referred to it bluntly as one, as what I wanted- the sales fellow replied in what I now see was vague terms and said that it was the latest version which has a layer of latex atop that dealt with the 'over heating' issue I'd heard so much about. I have issues with overheating due to other medical issues so I was overjoyed to hear this. What a sap.

Well? In the end, I won't slander a whole company based on one young man looking to make his commission- I don't think that is fair at all especially since I was a return customer who has had great service and good luck throughout the years.

Yet considering the pain I woke in today I wish I'd had this resource to use exhaustively. I truly thought I was looking forward to at minimum a great lessening of my morning pain -which follows me throughout the day- well, it's slightly better, but- I had my heart set for so long on waking on the big T - and certainly not in a shivery cold sweat (in a house without central heat, that aggravates me to no end). For months I thought Tempurpedic was a boondoggle or just a way for healthy people to 'roll over and not wake their partner' or joyously jump up and down without spilling their wine. (corny TV ad)

Well turns out the boondoggle was on me & I wonder how many people that hobble in on canes or in enter in wheelchairs are marks to the callous?

I'd urge everyone to do research before they buy, and most of all to get the sales guy to truly earn his money: strip it, flip it, name it, discuss pedigree and so on. Maybe all those car accidents that also whacked my skull made it easier to fast talk confound me- but I advise people, especially pain patients, to treat it like buying a car: test it, leave and -if you can? Sleep on it.

Thank You for this post.
It is beyond priceless, and I shall study it at length and share it as well.

Pain can make me crazy desperate and even now that I spent my thousands on this one darn bed, if someone -reliable!- were to point me toward a way to make this one even better? I think I'd have to, I think years and years of pain have stripped me of my free will in this regard. I sincerely hope that no one reading this ever has to endure a life of serious chronic pain, nor witness it in a loved one.