Today is the day to fulfill a little dream of Paolo’s. A 45-minute bus ride south through the suburban hinterlands and here we are: IKEA!
Yes, we’ve all been there a million times but here’s why Swedish IKEA is better than the IKEA in your country:
- A big room where you can drop off the kids and forget about them while you shop. Each kid is assigned a number which they wear on their bodies in the form of a little smock. “Hey Number 43, quit beating up Number 19!” Very Brave New World.
- The employees are dressed in a wide array of yellow tops: jaunty t-shirts, striped polos, fleece jackets.
- Fake fika in the kitchen furniture area.
- Cool art and design books… Let’s hear it for Ruthel and Olle Eksell!
- A smorgasboard option in the restaurant (okay, special for the Christmas season, but still…)
- A 6-pack of Sötsak Kakaobolls for 10 krona!
- Rad tote bags that are half the price they are at home.
The only bummer is that the collaboration with Stockholm textile designers 10-Gruppen isn’t out until May 2017… We’ll be back!
