About the project
2025
Get Lacky is both a critique and a celebration of IKEA’s Lack, a product that, despite its low-cost materials and simple constuction, has become a global staple. From the perspective of traditional craft, the Lack table appears to lack everything typically assoicated with value: time, skill and material depth. And yet, it thrives.
This contradiction is what fascinates me. Lack occupies a space between utility and disposability, ubiquity and disregard. It challenges how we define value, what we recognize as ‘’designed’’ or ‘’crafted’’ versus what we dismiss as cheap or throwaway.
Viewed outside the lens of mass commercial succeses, Lack represents a surprisingly relevant response to a world of expensive labor and finite resources.
Through surface interventions and shifts in context, I aim to reframe the design philosophy behing Lack, not as a sign of decline, but as a symbol of ingenuity. Using efficient construction and economic material use, paired with thoughtful surface design, this philosophy might offer a more sustainable and contemporary understanding of craft.
