Ickea

Last year when my German girlfriend came to visit she glanced at our local Ikea store as we drove by and sniffed, "That's so over."

At that moment I knew Ikea had crossed the line from trendy to mainstream. Comments on Project Rungay about Laura Bennet's fabulous loft also had that whiff of superiority about them, as if Ikea was no better than the Door Store or, gasp, WalMart.

The turning point for any fashionable icon, however well conceived, is when it enters the mainstream of satire, as with this treatment of a bus stop.

Ikea coffee table, anyone? 'Nuff said.