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Why no one has a fun couch anymore

Beige probably rules your room. At least, that’s what a new data visualization reveals. A chart from the European Correspondent tracks the color of every sofa found in Ikea’s catalogs between 1960 and 2021. The finding? Color washed out of Ikea’s seating in 2011, and didn’t come…

Beige probably rules your room. At least, that’s what a new data visualization reveals. A chart from the European Correspondent tracks the color of every sofa found in Ikea’s catalogs between 1960 and 2021. The finding? Color washed out of Ikea’s seating in 2011, and didn’t come…

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  • Fast Company

    Why no one has a fun couch anymore

    Beige probably rules your room. At least, that’s what a new data visualization reveals. A chart from the European Correspondent tracks the color of every sofa found in Ikea’s catalogs between 1960 and 2021. The finding? Color washed out of Ikea’s seating in 2011, and didn’t come…