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Ikea says ’Yes’ to Kanye West’s collaboration request

Australia Architecture News - Aug 03, 2016 - 09:45   13790 views

Ikea says ’Yes’ to Kanye West’s collaboration request

Global furniture brand Ikea (Australia) has responded to Kanye West's collaboration on a new range of furniture design after he announced his desire to work with the company. Ikea has posted a small visual that explains between the two what their collaboration might look like, published Ikea Australia's Facebook page. 

In this mock-up, small wooden pieces Yeezy are bonded from their joints and makes a longer bed as a new design, referring to Kanye West album track Famous as it was imagined. Ikea published this visual with a short expression by stating that ''Hej Kanye, we’d love to see what you’d create…we could make you Famous!''

Kanye West said ''I have to work with Ikea - make furniture for interior design, for architecture," he told BBC Radio 1. He said students would be particularly keen for him to create "a minimalist apartment inside of a college dorm". "Yo Ikea, allow Kanye to create, allow him to make this thing because you know what, I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes."

Last year, West had made a collaboration with Oana Stanescu to create a pop-art work for his concert show, called 'Yeezus Stage'-the work is a 50-foot-high volcano structure that Kanye West ascended onstage during his grandiose Yeezus tour. Kanye West and John McGuire were creative directors of the project. Furthermore, upon Adidas' loosing a frightening 7% of the U.S. marketshare between 2013 and 2014, the sportswear brand Adidas had worked with Kanye West on a mega-hyped new line of apparel featuring blouson jackets, unisex bomber, distressed, oversized collarless shirts in olive, tan, and grey. West's fashion line was mostly interpreted as devoid of devoid of color and adorned with vague militarism.

However, West's desire to design for Ikea began with his visiting Ikea's head office in Almhult, south Sweden, earlier this year. ''He had previously collaborated with British fashion designer Katie Eary who has, in turn, created a series of textiles and tableware for Ikea.''

Top image courtesy of Ikea/Facebook

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