"Ultimate Factories" excerpt: Inside Ikea
November 20th, 2009 admin
We’d love to see the introduction of a television program about industrial design that isn’t an annoying reality show, but until that day comes, we’ll happily settle for National Geographic’s awesome “Ultimate Factories.” Check out this excerpt from their inside look at an Ikea factory , where we can see what makes the LACK table so rigid: board-on-frame
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