Ikea 10 Tom Dixon Launch Delaktig Role Ii (Bed)
Tuesday 15 January 2019
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Last twelvemonth IKEA together with Tom Dixon launched DELAKTIG, an open-sourced together with customizable sofa platform offering a novel seating solution for the home. This February, IKEA together with Tom Dixon proceed their award-winning* collaboration alongside the liberate of the DELAKTIG bed frame which tin live customized past times users to exercise the sleeping surround they want.
“I’m fascinated past times the bed every bit a sort of principal unit of measurement that everybody needs,” says Tom Dixon. “It’s essential; nosotros pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension inwards contact alongside our beds than alongside whatsoever other slice of furniture. So why non teach inwards exercise more?”
The novel bed frame, available inwards a queen size, offers users a platform to add, take away together with swap simply about accompanying accessories - including a side table, lighting together with headboard - to accommodate their way of living, or inwards this case, sleeping. Made from 50% recycled aluminum, the extruded frame is cutting into pieces connected alongside bent joints for maximum stability (a production method also used inside the aviation industry) making the pattern extra light-weight, withal durable. Using a especial plumbing equipment (sold separately) users tin also add together a headboard inwards 2 dissimilar styles (black or rattan) to exercise a novel look.
DELAKTIG: Covers that last: Next calendar month IKEA volition also liberate novel comprehend options for the master copy DELAKTIG seating platform. Available inwards iii colors - dusty pink, soft beige together with rock greyness - the novel covers volition offering higher resistance against abrasion together with color-fading.
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DELAKTIG HOTEL: IKEA x Tom Dixon
The Swedish give-and-take DELAKTIG agency involved. To involve consumers inwards the launch of the novel DELAKTIG bed, terminal calendar week IKEA created together with launched a pop-up hotel inwards Lisbon, Portugal. For i nighttime only, v guests got to experience, experiment together with teach involved alongside things that contribute to a audio slumber together with a expert life – including the customizable, versatile together with durable DELAKTIG bed – inwards v dissimilar rooms designed past times IKEA: the everyday fabulous room, the dark-green room, the household unit of measurement room, the minimalist room together with the comfort room. Including the photos for decor inspiration —love all the lighting too!
Back inwards 2016 (right when DELAKTIG was announced), had the chance to verbalize alongside Tom Dixon spell he was hither at IDS Vancouver. Click here for the interview.
*In 2018, IKEA received a Red Dot Award: Product Design for the sofa platform DELAKTIG, developed inwards collaboration alongside Tom Dixon. Red Dot Award is an internationally organized contest which reviews the best products of the year.