Andreas Bhend Takes IKEA Hacking to the Next Level

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The IKEA hack is a veritable touchstone of the young and resourceful (read: broke) contingent of DIYers, but this Flotspotted project is exceptional for its scope: not only does Swiss designer Andreas Bhend hack the furniture but also the instructions themselves. “Frosta” is a collection of three articles of furniture that are made from reconstituted stools of the same name (which, in a ‘meta’ twist, are themselves Alvar Aalto knockoffs).

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The fact that his modified instructions call for power tools and handsaws provides only the subtlest of hints that something is amiss.

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Thus, Bhend has subverted the universalist pictograms of IKEA instruction manuals—a sort of language in itself—for his own ends. Even the promo video is vaguely IKEA-like:

See each of the individual projects after the jump…

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