It’s been over 20 years ever since the Berlin Wall went down and one could really see a difference in almost every aspect of a Czech life. One of them is how the Czechs furnish their apartments today. Gone are those incredibly dull communist sofas, tables and chairs – IKEA is the future of the Czech Republic! Their homes have definitely more style and are more colorful but the question is, did they move away from that totalitarian cookie-cutter style of furnishing or is it just a different type of cookie-cutting? The sad truth is that every other Czech family ends up with a same bedroom set ;0)
Of course, IKEA is not just the future of the Czech Republic – it seems that it overtook the whole world, including the US and our home. Now the Chinese family in Beijing, for example, may have the same table set as what we have. Crazy.
More on Czech love for IKEA can be found here (click here).
CZ: Jiz tomu je pres dvacet let, co se v Evrope zhroutila Berlinska zed a nasledky tohoto aktu jsou viditelene temer v kazdem aspektu ceske existence. Vezmete si napriklad bytove zarizeni: nabytek byl za komunistu tak nudny a jednotvarny, ze to vytvarelo v cloveku pocit deprese a beznadejnosti, jen co vkrocil do mistnosti. Tato nemastnost-neslanost je dnes ale uplne fuc, a to diky velkoobchodu IKEA. Temer kazda ceska domacnost ma odtud neco, at je to postel, nebo kuchyn nebo talir. IKEA samozrejme neovladla jen ceskou domacnost, ale take cely zbytek sveta. Je opravdu legracni, ze napriklad nejaka cinska rodina z Beijingu muze mit ten samy kuchynsky stul, jako mame my tady v Americe.
Jednotvarnost, kterou jsme zazili v komunismu, se jaksi prevlekla do atraktivnejsich, kriklavejsinch barev a ovlada dnes cely svet. Me osobne to moc nevadi, ale nemuzu se nepozastavit nad tou ironii.
O ceske lasce k IKEE is muzete precist zde (kliknete zde).
Source: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/130757/pictures/nakupy/ikea.jpg#pic
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Ja do Ikey chodim rada, i kdyz nemuzu rict, ze bych s ni mela zarizeny cely byt. Sem tam, nejaky kus, skombinuji s nabytkem novym ci z druhe ruky, latky jsou vetsinou moc kriklave, tak ty moc nemusim, ale pro deti treba fajn. Mam z Ikey kovovou postel a tu miluju a treba kulaty stul a parsonske zidle, podobne se daji koupit kdekoli, ale v Ikei je meli za min a snadno dopravitelne. Asi to chce vseho s mirou.
Pardon “zkombinuji”… 🙂
No, prave, presne tak, je to docela levny obchod a nektere veci jsou opravdu hezke a moderni takze je tezke tomu odolat 🙂
To vis, ze jo! Koupila jsem si tam treba takove drevene krychle s oddelavacim vrchem, daji se pouzit jako stolky, nebo i na sezeni, a na storage, byly z neupraveneho dreva, namorila jsem je na tmavohnedou a ted mi je kazdy obdivuje a divi se, ze jsou z Ikey!
Ja vyuzivam Ikeu hlavne na kuchynske nadobi a na proutene kosiky. Das do nich haraburdi a vypada to porad hezky 🙂
Ale mas Tano pravdu, je to takovy ‘cookie-cutter’ – ale ‘ze Zapadu’ :)))