What brought IKEA immense success was once considered a disparaged and hopeless innovation. Two German designers had similar visions for contemporary furniture design long before IKEA's rise to fame. This essay compares two significant …

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." —Abraham H. Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance, p.15 Using this …