Came across this tid bit the other day. I thought of my brother, Marty, right away. He is full of stupid facts that no one else knows. So now I have one that perhaps he didn't know about.
Margaret Marks is the one woman show whose job is to name all IKEA products. Yes, everything they sell is named by just one person! How IKEA names its products is interesting. Dining tables are named after places in northern Sweden. Rugs get Danish place-names. Bookcases are named after professions, while mathematical terms designate curtain rods. Desks and chairs get men's names, whereas anything meant for a bathroom is named after a body of water.
Now that you know this, and have both an atlas and a Swedish dictionary handy, you'll probably do well at Cal Henderson's IKEA game, a multiple-choice quiz in which players are asked to match names to products.
Enjoy filling your brain with this info :)
1 comment:
one more for the memory bank... i had some thought about the names before, but never a treasure trove like this.
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