{"id":56620,"date":"2025-07-11T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/?p=56620"},"modified":"2025-07-15T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:24:28","slug":"the-ikea-idea-at-dovecot-studios-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/the-ikea-idea-at-dovecot-studios-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"The IKEA Idea at Dovecot Studios Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over several decades, the Swedish interior design and furnishings retailer IKEA has had a transformative effect on homes worldwide \u2013 and British home interiors since it arrived in the early 1980s \u2013 with its bold, confident and appealing look. A new exhibition at Edinburgh&#8217;s <strong>Dovecot Studios<\/strong> features 180 fabrics that reflect its role in shaping Swedish design, and interiors worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-1024x1536.jpg\" alt=\"From Dovecot Studios' exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56624 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-1024x1536.jpg\" alt=\"From Dovecot Studios' exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56624 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-480x720.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>From Dovecot Studios&#8217; exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Through an immersive installation of its signature bold prints and playful patterns, visitors can learn how works by renowned designers like Zandra Rhodes, Marimekko, and the revolutionary Swedish collective 10-gruppen brought exciting pattern design into homes around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"From Dovecot Studios' exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56623 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"From Dovecot Studios' exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56623 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III-480x384.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-III.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>From Dovecot Studios&#8217; exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Fri 18th July at 9:30 there will be a breakfast tour for those who would like to be the first to see the show, and on Saturday 19th July \u2013 the exhibition&#8217;s opening weekend \u2013 Dovecot&#8217;s Director Celia Joicey will be giving a talk on <em>IKEA: Magical Patterns<\/em>. Ticketed entry includes entry to the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"From Dovecot Studios' exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56622 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"From Dovecot Studios' exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56622 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II-480x384.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/From-Dovecot-Studios-exhibition.-Image-courtesy-Dovecot-Studios-II.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>From Dovecot Studios&#8217; exhibition. Image courtesy Dovecot Studios<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also showing, on the Studios&#8217; balcony from 28th July, is an exhibition marking its collaboration with painter Victoria Crowe: <em>Shifting Surfaces<\/em> explores the connections between her paintings and their woven interpretations, highlighting her work with light, landscape, and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Crowe, 'Orcadian Series: Above Stromness'. Image Victoria Crowe and Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56632 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe--1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Crowe, 'Orcadian Series: Above Stromness'. Image Victoria Crowe and Dovecot Studios\" class=\"wp-image-56632 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe--480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe--150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Victoria-Crowe-.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Victoria Crowe, &#8216;Orcadian Series: Above Stromness&#8217;. Image Victoria Crowe and Dovecot Studios<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibition at Edinburgh&#8217;s Dovecot Studios features 180 fabrics that reflect the role of Swedish interior design retailer IKEA in shaping homes worldwide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101036,"featured_media":56621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2965,288,294],"topic":[250],"class_list":["post-56620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-arts-news","tag-chris-ofili","tag-dovecot","tag-studios","topic-exhibition-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56620"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=56620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}