# Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA, dies at 91

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**Created:** [January 29, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea-dies-at-91/807724 "2018-01-29T15:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea-dies-at-91/807724/1 "2018-01-29T15:14:09Z")

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> **[IKEA Founder, Ingvar Kamprad, Dies At 91](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/28/581425350/ikea-founder-ingvar-kamprad-dies-at-91)**
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> The Swedish entrepreneur, whose company brought affordable, Scandinavian design to living rooms around the world, died Saturday in his home in Smaland, Sweden.

The funeral will be this coming Wednesday.

Everyone is invited over this Tuesday night to help assemble the casket.

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea-dies-at-91/807724/2 "2018-01-29T15:25:13Z")

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Pssst, we already have an [allen wrench](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=848064).

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea-dies-at-91/807724/3 "2018-01-29T15:44:46Z")

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When I first heard about this yesterday morning on the radio, my first thought was about some kind of build-it-yourself casket joke. Then I find out the entire internet beat me to it.

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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea-dies-at-91/807724/4 "2018-01-29T16:05:15Z")

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I just happened to get the news of this Saturday while eating some Swedish meatballs at my local Ikea.